Sentence examples for coming under gunfire from inspiring English sources

Charity Hospital, one of several facilities attempting to evacuate patients, was forced to halt the effort after coming under gunfire.

Last year, the police also came under gunfire from dissident republicans during the rioting.

The police officers and firefighters who arrived to extinguish the flames came under gunfire.

The police came under gunfire from "heavy weapons", according to the French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve.

Just before 3 a.m., they went ashore and had begun to climb onto land when four helicopters appeared overhead and they came under gunfire, she said.

The problem with the electrical power supply, he said, is that technicians approaching a central control room had come under gunfire.

However, Israeli soldiers at the liaison office in the southern Gaza Strip came under gunfire today and shot back, the Israeli Army said.

The British Embassy in Tehran came under gunfire just after Iran announced that it was temporarily calling its ambassador back from Britain.

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American warplanes struck twice this weekend in eastern Afghanistan after coalition forces and Afghan allies came under gunfire at a roadblock, said Lt. Col. Jim Yonts, a spokesman for the Central Command in Tampa, Fla.

The Israeli Army said it fired live ammunition in Nablus after it came under gunfire, but said it used only rubber-coated bullets to respond to stone throwers in Jenin.