Update: Residents flee as fighting between Military and BH intensify in Bulunkutu, Maiduguri

The fighting has begun since last night a few hours after President Goodluck Jonathan ended a presidential campaign rally in Maiduguri promising to find high school girls kidnapped by the deadly sect last April and re-unite them with their families.

Residents of Bulunkutu, outskirt of Maiduguri, fleeing after a Boko Haram attack earlier. A twitter user posted the photos.