UN/French helicopter Mr Gbagbo have heavy weapons attack was fighting in C?te d'Ivoire city, Abidjan, has taken a new turn with reports, that rooted ruler Laurent Gbagbo residence have been arrested.Forces loyal said to Alassane Ouattara, internationally recognized President of the country, that they had taken the building after a fierce battle.
A spokesman for Mr Ouattara, Patrick Achi, said it was not yet clear whether Mr. Gbagbo had been within the BBC.
Earlier, UN and French helicopters attacked targets in the vicinity of the residence.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said the attacks were ordered to defend civilians and were no declaration of war on Mr Gbagbo.
He said Mr Gbagbo forces had stepped up by the use of mortars, bazookas and heavy machine guns against civilians.
Five days fighting in the city, where Mr Gbagbo refuses to let you despite UN-approved results Office Mr Ouattara November won the presidential election, millions of civilians have caught were.
Loyal Mr Ouattara a dramatic military offensive began to forces in the last week go from the North and West.
'Still on the search'Patrick Achi, a spokesman for Mr Ouattara, said the recognized President Mr Gbagbo forces were control of the residence and the search for.
Read the main world's largest cocoa ProducerOnce an oasis of calm in West AfricaOuattara recognized as President elect in 2010 international sanctions Gbagbo force hundreds killed, a million 9,000 UN peacekeepers fled 2003 ceasefire monitor "is the residence at many levels," he told the BBC."People saw that Gbagbo has been in the residence, but they are still looking after him."
Asked what would happen if Mr Gbagbo was captured, he said he would be arrested and "put".
There was no word of Mr Gbagbo camp in Ivory Coast, but one of his advisers in London, Abdon George Bayeto, expressed doubts about news that the residence had fallen.
"This is all propaganda and it is a war of psychology," he said.
Earlier, UN and French helicopter Mr Gbagbo attacked arsenal, firing of rockets on his heavy weapons and military camp.
A senior peacekeeping officials, Alain Le Roy, said, that the decision had based such measures for the protection of civilians on a strongly worded UN Security Council resolution authorising.
The use and caliber of heavy weapons by Gbagbo forces had he said days escalated sharply in the last.
The UN mission was almost continuous attacked and forced to act, he said.
The air strikes fell last strongholds by powers with a last attack on Mr Gbagbo loyal to his rival Mr Ouattara as looked, however, reported the BBC's Barbara Plett of the United Nations in New York.
Observers said that the timing been no coincidence as there is a feeling that the month-long stand-off between the two presidential claimants approached its end.
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