 The rebel troops (4,000 men) seized the nerve centers of the city, occupying the telephone exchange, the town hall and the radio station, and establishing control routes into the center of the city.On 20 July, the rebels bombed the working-class districts of Seville, and after the rebel troops supported by the troops of the Spanish Legion arrived from Africa, 50 civil guards, 50 "requetes" and 50 falangists entered in the "Triana" and "Macarena" districts, using women and children as human shields, and started a bloody repression.The legionaries killed with knives all the men whom they found.