Instead, her life was tragically cut short in a hail of gunfire outside a Safeway supermarket.

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As Sergeant Baitinger entered the kill zone, a hail of gunfire erupted from the attic above.

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Meanwhile, Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana escaped a hail of gunfire in Bosnia on Wednesday.

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Mubarak came to power in 1981, after then-President Anwar Sadat died in a hail of gunfire at a military parade -- killed by Islamic militants from within the army's own ranks after he took the dramatic step of making peace with Israel.

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