The room the president had taken shelter in was attacked by gunfire.
At a news conference, Ahmed Ali, a military spokesman, said the security forces had responded with rubber bullets and gas bombs after coming under attack by heavy gunfire.
Twenty-six mosques around France have been subject to attack by firebombs, gunfire, pig heads, and grenades as Muslims are targeted with violence in the wake of the Paris attacks.
While Blackwater has said its guards were attacked by automatic gunfire, the soldiers did not find any casings from the sort of guns typically used by insurgents or by Iraqi security forces, according to an American military official briefed on the findings of the unit that arrived at the scene about 20 minutes after the Blackwater convoy left.
In a day of dueling news conferences 500 miles apart, Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato campaigned upstate yesterday, emphasizing his efforts to help storm victims, while Representative Charles E. Schumer, his Democratic rival, appeared in Washington with the mother of an 11-year-old girl killed by gunfire, to attack the Senator's opposition to gun control.
Early today, Israeli troops fought militants along the southern Gaza border after coming under attack by antitank rockets and gunfire.
Two more were killed by gunfire during an attack on the national headquarters of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood in a suburb of the capital, medical sources said.
The now iconic Pulse sign remains in place, and an adjacent fountain that was badly damaged by gunfire in the attack nearly two years ago has been restored.
Boarded-up windows and doors can be destroyed by gunfire, or melee attacks, and bullets will go through all manner of surfaces – wood, glass and certain types of wall.
"Today you can only call it a real war against civilians in Taiz, you cannot call it by any other name," said a local doctor, Abdul-Rahim al-Samie, who said that four women and two children were among those killed Friday by gunfire and mortar attacks.
