Gbagbo supporters launch attack

IVORY COAST, Abidjan (AP):

Elite troops loyal to the sitting president Laurent Gbagbo entered opposition neighbourhoods in Ivory Coast's biggest city yesterday, throwing grenades, firing machine guns and attacking the population with rocket launchers, witnesses said.

The attack happened as an African Union delegation arrived in a last-ditch effort to find a solution to the crisis that has gripped this nations since a contested election nearly three months ago.

At least six people were killed during yesterday's attack, including a 14-year-old boy who was rushed to a local clinic in the Treichville district of Abidjan. Doctors said he died of blood loss and a reporter saw his corpse, his chest and abdomen crisscrossed by hundreds of shrapnel wounds.