Sentences with phrase «sporadic gunfire»

When he looked up again at the clock, it was ten a.m. Only the sound of sporadic gunfire could be heard at the moment that a dozen or so Haitian riot police officers, the SWAT - like CIMO (Corps d'Intervention et de Maintien de l'Ordre, or Unit for Intervention and Maintaining Order), stormed the church.

Trailing the sounds of sporadic gunfire, they turned the corner toward Rue Saint Martin, then came back in the other direction.

Eyewitnesses reported hearing exchanges of gunfire between the men and security forces, as well as sporadic gunfire from inside the hotel.

Although a ceasefire was in place, I lay awake at night listening to sporadic gunfire on the frontline, and prayed.