1.   But the assailant fired once through the waist-high counter, then jumped on top of it and fired down at her, inflicting the fatal wounds.

2.   He was unarmed and had no idea why his assailant fired four shots at him.

3.   The assailant fired at least four times, and Charbonnier was struck in the abdomen, below his bulletproof vest.

4.   Police officials said the assailants fired three shots at Alameh as he was entering an Amman hotel before dawn after performing in a song festival in the Jordanian capital.

5.   Provincial police chief Thompson Lantion said Ickrodt was talking with his wife Florinda and friends outside their home when the assailant fired two shots from a handgun.

6.   A legislator from the region, Seitkulov Begimkul, told the Salam Azia newspaper that unknown assailants had fired shots from a truck at the crowd on Monday night.

7.   A Turkish soldier was killed Thursday night when unknown assailants fired on a military base here, the Anatolia news agency said.

8.   A Turkish soldier was killed Thursday night when unknown assailants fired on a military base here, the Anatolia news agency reported.

9.   After the blast, the assailants fired several machine gun bursts before fleeing.

10.   An opposition newspaper, Al-Wafd, said an assailant fired on him and that the bullet grazed his ear, but police could not confirm the report.