Georgian Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC) are seen in a street of the town of Gori, Georgia, 08 August 2008. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili called for a general military mobilization on 08 August as fighting raged in Georgia's separatist region of South Ossetia. Saakashvili said the Georgian side now controlled a "large part of South Ossetia," and fighting was ongoing in the rebel regions‘ capital Tskhinvali. At least 15 people, primarily civilians, were killed in heavy shelling and airstrikes of the capital Tskhinvali, news agency Interfax cited South Ossetian officials as saying. Both sides deployed fighter jets to carry out bombings on one another as the fighting escalated on 08 August.