51.   Dozens of gunshots in sporadic bursts exploded around the embassy as men appeared on the roof of the white-walled compound.

52.   They spent most of the day in the trucks as shells exploded around them.

53.   Thirty-five seriously wounded Rwandans spent most of the day in the back of UN trucks as rebel shells exploded around them.

54.   Shells exploded around the Bonsella at the rate of two a minute.

55.   Similar scenes were being played out in the southern city of Ashqelon, where a second bomb exploded at around the same time near a group of soldiers.