Gunfire erupts in army base in South Sudan capital - witness

The body of a government soldier lay in the street outside the military headquarters and a column of smoke billowed into the sky from inside the compound, sending panicked residents running through the streets.

It was not immediately clear what started the fighting but it did not appear to be a confrontation between government forces and rebels. Clashes between those two factions have largely been fought in other region's of the country.

(Reporting by Carl Odera; Writing by Richard Lough; Editing by Edmund Blair)