Human rights groups have blamed both sides, but highlighted the army's use of live gunfire as the principle cause of death.
The attackers, using a combination of gunfire and perhaps some sound grenades or small explosive devices, created enough of a diversion to storm their way past the guardhouse into the compound.
Even 23 years later, the use of tanks and gunfire to disperse unarmed students and other Tiananmen Square protesters remains a point of bitter dispute in China and around the world.
Locals used to the sound of gunfire from the home of the man who had ridden with the Hell's Angels, paid tribute to his neighbourly qualities.
As his opponents seek to resist him, residents of the Burundian capital have become increasingly used to the sound of gunfire at night – and the reports of deaths in the morning.
The presence of National Guard troops, the militarization of local police, and scattered outbreaks of violence have fueled one of the more popular comparisons of Ferguson to a warzone -- the same isolating rhetoric that is used to describe scenes of gunfire and drone strikes in distant countries.
In our video, Mendes says she is now used to the constant sound of gunfire.
Before being captured, Stephen McFaul, 36, an electrical engineer from Belfast, Northern Ireland, barricaded himself in a room with a colleague at the first sound of gunfire, quietly using his cellphone to assure his family that he was all right.
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Pulse patron Joshua McGill said after he heard the first rounds of gunfire, he used a couch on the patio as leverage to haul himself over.
