21.   Firing of weapons has continued throughout the morning though it is less intense than in recent days.

22.   Five hours earlier, Atlantis Commander Robert Hoop Gibson told Mission Control here that a third firing of the shuttle engines had been flawless.

23.   Firing of rocket-propelled grenades was heard close by while the sound of automatic arms fire seemed to come from several areas of the centre of Goma.

24.   Sporadic firing of anti-aircraft or heavy artillery reverberate through the region on the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountain chain.