"The sound of heavy gunfire and what sounds like RPGs (rocket propelled grenades) began at around 7:15 a.m. and it is still going," a Reuters witness said, adding that it was coming from Fori, an area near a military barracks.Boko Haram has killed thousands in an almost five-year-long insurgency aimed at carving out an Islamic state in a religiously-diverse country of around 170 million people.(Reporting by Lanre Ola; Additional reporting by Isaac Abrak in Kaduna; Writing by Joe Brock (http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=joe.brock&); Editing by Catherine Evans (http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=catherine.evans&))
Source: Reuters.com