from machetes, with sticks, gunshots were heard overnight," he said.

"I don't know of anyone being shot, but people - one person we were told - was actually thrown off the first floor of one of the buildings."

The ABC has been unable to verify Mr Rintoul's claims.

Mr Morrison said the claims were "not correct" on the information he had been given.

A man who said he was an asylum seeker at the Manus Island centre phoned the ABC last night saying shots were fired and most of the detainees had fled.

He refused to give his name and the ABC has been unable to confirm his statement.

Opposition wants inquiry as Wilkie slams 'hell hole'

The Opposition has demanded a full inquiry into the incident and wants to know what steps the GovernmentQ:

Were 14 million abortions performed on African Americans from 1973 to 2006?

The 2006 book Freed Indeed: The Spiritual Wealth of Black America at page 45 says: 

since 1973 over fourteen million black babies have been aborted ... at fourteen million, these abortions exceed all other causes of death of African Americans by over six million

Is this true?

A:

According to Trends in the Characteristics of Women Obtaining
Abortions, 1974 to 2004, tables 3 and 4, and Statistical Abstracts of the United States 2012, table 101, abortion data is as follows:

year: non-whites (blacks)
1973: 195,820
1974: 269,250
1975: 333,000
1976: 394,410
1977: 427,920
1978: 440,190
1979: 435,270
1980: 460,260
1981: 469,570
1982: 478,660
1983: 490,640
1984: 490,550
1985: 512,910
1986: 529,300
1987: 541,800
1988: 565,080
1989: 546,990  (495,680)
1990: 569,890  (505,270)
1991: 574,480  (506,790)
1992: 585,400  (516,890)
1993: 587,280  (517,130)
1994: 567,170  (491,590)
1995: 542,250  (462,470)
1996: 563,300 