BBC: Chad rebels close in, shell capital city

[bigworld]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4905388.stm

Heavy fighting has subsided in Chad's capital after breaking out at dawn, between government troops and rebels trying to overthrow the president.

A BBC correspondent in N'Djamena said gunfire and shelling began at dawn and lasted for some two hours.

Speaking on the radio, President Idriss Deby said government forces had destroyed a small rebel column that attempted to enter the capital.

He said that government troops were in "complete control" of N'Djamena.

[Dufaeth]

1. I remember reading a month or so ago

about the death squads persuing the refugees into Chad and killing them there. I wonder if this is their doing as well? Chad seems to think so.