1.   Afghans say they want to confirm that it indeed was a mistake and officially confirm the casualties.

2.   But NATO officials said that pilots saw no civilians and that they could not confirm any casualties.

3.   Peruvian military officials did not confirm the casualties.

4.   The Pentagon said it could not confirm the casualties.

5.   The station showed the bodies of several soldiers on stretchers on a street in Grozny, and quoted a doctor at a Russian field hospital as confirming the casualties.

6.   Palestinian witnesses said explosions and exchanges of fire were heard from the building but Palestinian security officials did not immediately confirm any casualties from the takeover.

7.   A Guerrero state official in Chilpancingo confirmed there was shooting but said he could not confirm any casualties.

8.   A person who answered the telephone at the Russian Embassy in Beirut confirmed the casualties, but declined to say whether they were diplomats.

9.   Amal sources in Sidon, provincial capital of south Lebanon, confirmed the casualties.

10.   An Israeli army statement confirmed the casualties, and said Hezbollah was to blame.