1.   But gunfire resounded throughout the city and terrified civilians continued to flee.

2.   Local media reported that armed police scoured villages Saturday, sending hundreds of terrified civilians fleeing.

3.   Long columns of terrified civilians emerged from combat zones, and authorities blocked international monitors from the area.

4.   Terrified civilians continue to pour out of Chechnya, and a line of vehicles stretched for miles outside of Grozny Thursday.

5.   The fighting turned the landscape upside down when terrified civilians sought safety with their own factions.

6.   Other terrified civilians were hiding in the basements of their homes.

7.   A few terrified civilians tried to get out of the city, their belongings stuffed in big plastic bags.

8.   Across the city, other terrified civilians were hiding in basements of their homes.

9.   Armed checkpoints, fighting and piracy by troops of government and rebel alliances alike chased terrified civilians off the water from the start of the conflict.

10.   But they conceded that no help was in sight for beleaguered government forces and tens of thousands of terrified Muslim civilians.