The station said the shooter had fired around 30 shots, and that he had left a spent magazine on the ground at the scene.
The British ships and crews had fired around 500 shells, 4,100 machine gun rounds and 1,000 rifle rounds during the engagement.
"And to the extent that Beijing has fired missiles around Taiwan and is adding 50 missiles a year to its arsenal, that increases what we have to do to provide adequate countermeasures".
Barack Obama's election in the United States has fired imaginations around the globe, perhaps nowhere more than in the Middle East, where people wonder how the future president's approach to the Arab world will differ from that of his predecessor.
The commodore did confirm reports in the South Korean news media that another South Korean ship had fired warning shots around the time the first ship was damaged after detecting an unidentified object on its radar.
He said they had fired off shots around the central police station and roared through the capital on motorcycles to express their discontent over low salaries and some of the force's commanders.
Elliot Rodger, 22, described as the British-born son of a film director, died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in the black BMW car from which he had fired as he drove around an Isla Vista campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Twice in previous weeks, young men from outside the area had fired shots into the scrum around the basketball courts at Cole Park, just across the street from the Worthams' house.
Timbuktu has fallen into the hands of Tuareg rebel forces and shots have been fired around the city's grand mosque, a Unesco World Heritage Site.
"We'd had fires all around us for a week, then suddenly we were told to get out," Mrs. Theis recalled.
