reporter: monita, we ve just heard from the interior ministry something which you could read in certain ways, i suppose. two gunshots were fired at 2:00 a.m. in the morning. so about seven hours ago now. they don t know why and since then they haven t heard anything. they haven t heard any kind of communication with the suspect holed up inside the house. he had said earlier in discussions with police that he had wanted to die with his weapons in his hand. interior ministry has said consistently that their priority is to get him out alive. we hope that he s alive. there is a possibility on my reading of that information that could be that the gunshots fired, he has i mean, it is a possibility that he might have killed himself that there is no contact with him. of course, that is pure conjecture on my part. we really don t know what s going on inside that house and the siege continues, monita. very difficult to understand. to actually gauge what s happening when there is