In the weak glare of street lights, the constant gunfire in the darkness indicated that it was too dangerous for anyone to go to his aid.
Then he spent 15 minutes cowering between two of the three buses in which the students had been travelling, as the single shots turned into bursts of semi-automatic gunfire lighting up the night with their flashes.
But early in the morning more mortars could be heard exploding in the city, and gunfire lit up the front-line fighting position near Tripoli Street for much of the morning and early afternoon.
CELEBRATORY fireworks and gunfire lit up the skies across Yemen on November 23rd, after Ali Abdullah Saleh, the mountainous country's president for the past 33 years, signed an agreement in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to surrender power to a caretaker government.
It's another entry in Korine's madcap exploration of the most elemental aspects of young adulthood, lit up by gunfire and a garish pink neon glow.
Behind it the revolt itself, which fills the play's second half, is replete with the light and sound of gunfire, as though a Hollywood movie were being shot just out of view.
Through its audio-visual effects, the exhibition tries to bring war to life: bloodied bodies litter the floor, lights flash, you hear gunfire, bombardment and screams.
Although not all these intended features were realised, the game does contain more advanced lighting than GoldenEye 007; lights can be shot out, gunfire illuminates rooms, and the player can use infra-red and night vision goggles.
I think of the man in the truck below him that he is trying to kill, watching the night sky suddenly fill with light and the sound of gunfire.
