Dukat saw grainy images, probably from the security monitors out on the embassy walls.

He got out before it exploded just yards away from the embassy walls.

They had also transformed the embassy wall into the world's biggest billboard for anti-imperialist graffiti.

The tank was halfway across the open field north of the embassy wall.

He explained that an excessively dangerous criminal had escaped jail and been seen climbing the embassy wall.

Half an hour later a rope uncoiled itself at the very darkest outside corner of the embassy wall.

The French ambassador escaped by climbing the embassy walls.

A huge chunk of the embassy wall was blasted away, and a staircase stood exposed.

But it remains on the embassy wall.

The first to enter were the five dissidents, followed several hours later by two students who scrambled over the embassy wall minutes before the police arrived.