South Ossetian Defence Minister Andrei Laptev said on Sunday that the republic’s Defence Ministry units managed to repel a fire attack on South Ossetia’s capital Tskhinvali. The southern outskirts of the South Ossetian capital were subject to heavy fire from submachine-guns, grenade launchers and mine mortars for two hours. The fire came from the Georgian villages of Ergeneti and Nikozi. “The Georgian special units made an attempt to penetrate into the city but the attack was repelled, and they were dispersed,” Laptev went on to say. Laptev confirmed that the southern neighbourhoods of Tskhinvali were fired at from large-calibre weapons. There are wounded among law enforcers and civilians. OSCE military observers and representatives of the Joint peacekeeping force in the area of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict are working at the site. (Itar-Tass)