Rebels Launch Assault on Briktown: Heavy Fighting Reported

A Brikvanian troop firing on enemy's position along Main Highway 1 outside Briktown.

Thousands of rebel troops have launched a major assault on Briktown, the capital city of Brikvania. The offensive took place since early yesterday evening when rebel fighters attacked the government positions in early evening.

Residents in Briktown reported heavy exchanges of gunfire as government troops fought back the assault.

Journalists at the frontline reported that rebel fighters are under heavy artillery fire as they moved closer to Briktown.  In Westonia, a suburb in southern Briktown, about 200 rebel fighters are reported to have been killed when they moved across the open field next to the airport. 

There are reports that government troops taking shelter in many warehouses have come out and attack the rebels at the city's outer limits.

"I think the rebels have fallen into a trap. Government troops have retreated into the capital, and the rebels thought they were winning and moved into the open areas to attack Briktown. But government troops opened fire using newly supplied artillery", said Pete Arnet, a reporter from the Legonian Broadcasting Service.

Residents at the frontline said that they saw government troops rushing to the frontline as artillery bombardment fell on the rebels.

By this morning, the frontline has changed as government troops had retaken rebels' positions in the south and west of the capital. 

In Legotown, the Legonian government has called for an immediate ceasefire and for the rebels to pull back to the Malatian Province of Brikvania.