31.   Several bursts of automatic fire were aimed at the Israeli troops, who took cover on the ground and then returned fire, witnesses and the Israeli army said.

32.   Some witnesses said Serbs even used automatic fire.

33.   Soon a gunbattle ensued, with hundreds of Palestinian policemen trading automatic fire with Israeli soldiers who were backed by armored personnel carriers and helicopters.

34.   The van was sprayed with automatic fire, witnesses said.

35.   There was also no explanation how the man managed to keep silence after being wounded with automatic fire.

36.   They responded with automatic fire, Coward said.

37.   Garissa district commissioner Alois Lentoimaga said the Somali gunmen crossed the remote Demekele border post and ambushed a Kenyan border patrol team, spraying the convoy with automatic fire.

38.   Gunmen posted in at least three places opened up automatic fire against a Russian position near the presidential palace, triggering a barrage of Russian automatic and artillery fire.

39.   He said about seven or eight tank rounds had been fired in reply to automatic fire.

40.   In a separate attack early Sunday a soldier died in hospital after coming under automatic fire near a checkpoint at Kissoufim, between the Gaza Strip and Israel.