Sentence examples for under heavy gunfire from inspiring English sources

Badil also published video of protesters retreating on a street in Giza under heavy gunfire, and rushing to evacuate the wounded by motorcycle.

The UN said its compound came under heavy gunfire on Thursday afternoon from Gbagbo's special forces, entrenched close to the presidential palace.

The army said that an Israeli border patrol came under heavy gunfire and an attack of more than 20 grenades as it defused two roadside bombs and a third exploded, causing no casualties.

Their bus had just entered the Angolan enclave of Cabinda, where separatists have waged a three-decade long war, when it came under heavy gunfire for several minutes, a Togo team official said.

In a statement about Friday's episode in Abuja, Marilyn Ogar, a spokeswoman for the State Security Service, Nigeria's intelligence agency, said officers were looking for an arms cache in the building when they "came under heavy gunfire" by "other Boko Haram elements".

Chris Broad, the Test cricket referee who narrowly escaped with his life in the Lahore terror attack on Tuesday, has described how his van came under heavy gunfire for several minutes after "popping sounds" were heard around the Sri Lankan team bus.

At a news conference, Ahmed Ali, a military spokesman, said the security forces had responded with rubber bullets and gas bombs after coming under attack by heavy gunfire.

An attempted military coup is under way in Burundi with heavy gunfire in the capital Bujumbura.

More horror would come that day — toward the end of the ceremony, we all came under attack by militants on motorcycles, and there was heavy gunfire in which one Afghan soldier was killed.

Heavy gunfire from compound.

"There is heavy gunfire going on.