At least 350 people died during a rebel attack on Chad's capital, and 271 rebels were captured, the territorial management minister said Friday, insisting that the rebel force was completely destroyed.

Chad's President Idriss Deby gestures while talking during a press conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, in a Thursday Nov. 24, 2005 file photo. Government troops using tanks and attack helicopters repelled a rebel assault on Chad's capital Thursday, April 13, 2006. President Deby assured residents he remained in control. [AP]

Gen. Mahamet Ali Abdullah said he did not have a breakdown of the dead, but that the number included government troops, rebel forces and civilians caught in the fighting. He said the army also captured 14 pickups used by the rebels.