NEWS UPDATE: Heavy Attack Ongoing In Damaturu, Air Force Jet Engages Insurgents

Unsettling news coming from Damaturu, Yobe State, suggests that the capital in under attack.
According to Leadership, the heavy attack involved shooting and explosion and was launched around 6:30am.
The terrified residents of the town were forced to flee in fear for their lives.
One of them identified as Malam Abdulmalik disclosed:
“As I am talking to you now, we are in serious confusion now, gunshots and explosions everywhere especially from the southern part of the city and people are fleeing.”
Another escaping local narrated that they had been woken up by multiple gunshots and blasts adding that the attack might be the work of the dreaded Boko Haram sect.

A resident, who pleaded for anonymity, said:
“We are running for our lives…we are under attack… We don’t know where to hide, the shooting is all over….”
Premium Times (PT) also reports on the issue saying that the insurgents have apparently beseiged the town.
One Damaturu, Yaya Haruna, said:
“It is as if they have surrounded us all here; there is sound of explosion and serious shooting. We are all lying down on the floor with our families ; please pray for our safety, that we survive this… “
An official SSS source from Maiduguri confirmed the attack with a text message reading: “Damaturu may be under attack now”.
The Nation correspondents was in the epicenter, having been run out of his house in Jerusalem area along with other thousands of residents. He said he heard 5deafening explosions.
According to Sahara Reporters the gunmen, who have already attacked schools and mobile police base, are heading for the government house with the aim to seize the capital.
UPDATE:
An Air Force jet arrived to the capital and is engaging Boko Haram fighters, PT reports. The military personnel on ground are reportedly careful with the response as they want to do everything possible to avoid harming locals during the gunfire exchange.
It would be recalled that President Goodluck Jonathan has recently requested for another extension of emergency rule in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states. However the move was not warmly and unanimously accepted in the National Assembly.