The police base camp and the principle government building tumbled to the Taliban on Wednesday, a neighborhood congressperson said.
The Taliban say their contenders have grabbed the whole area.
Then again, the Afghan safeguard service said battling was proceeding with and that fortifications had been sent.
Sangin saw very nearly a quarter of British military fatalities amid the UK's battle mission in Afghanistan.
Locale representative Haji Suliman Shah told the BBC he had been transported from the area HQ to Shorabak base - once in the past Camp Bastion - in the common capital Lashkar Gah right off the bat Wednesday, alongside 15 injured security power individuals.
A couple of hundred police and officers have taken asylum at an armed force military enclosure around 7km (four miles) from Sangin, and are attacked there.
Why Sangin matters
Afghan powers crosswise over Helmand - here a policeman watches Marjah area - have gone under weight from agitators
Sangin is a rich creation community for opium in Helmand region
Helmand is a noteworthy focus of the Taliban rebellion and fringes Pakistan
Of the 456 UK military passings in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2015, right around a quarter were murdered in and around Sangin
US and British troops have been sent to Helmand in the most recent couple of days, however in an admonitory part just
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Ashuqullah, a cop at the military enclosure, told the BBC the "whole" town was controlled by activists. "We have not seen any help," he said.
"Support troops have been airdropped at a separation... be that as it may, all streets are blocked and in the activists' control," he included.
There were numerous injured at the dormitory requiring earnest departure, he said.
Talking in Kabul, Afghanistan's acting Defense Minister Masoum Stanikzai depicted the circumstance in Helmand as "reasonable" and said crisp backing troops had been sent in.
Afghan government powers had been "daintily spread" over the entire nation, he said, and had been attempting their best to hold all territories.
A little unexpected of British troops has been sent to Helmand "in a consultative part," the British government said on Tuesday.
A Taliban representative, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, guaranteed on Wednesday:
"The Sangin area focuses, its police HQ, and different foundations were under proceeded with assaults of the mujahideen and today... with God's beauty the locale was completely caught by the mujahideen.
"The white banner of the Islamic emirate is at full pole at the area now.''
Haji Daud, the leader of the Sangin locale individuals' committee, told the BBC that Sangin occupants had fled the region to neighboring zones.
Reacting to the barrier clergyman's cases, he said: "Those whose family - siblings and kin and folks - are not battling on the front, they generally say the circumstance is not risky in the area..."
"The individuals who make such remarks couldn't care less to safeguard Helmand."
People from Sangin have fled to neighboring areas, a nearby pioneer has told the BBC
Drug store proprietor Sarwah Shah, who fled to Lashkar Gah, told the BBC that the majority of the families living on his road in Sangin - around 20 to 30 houses - had fled.
Another occupant Agha Wali said he had fled Sangin with his youngsters two days back. He had needed to desert every one of his belonging, he said.
The Taliban have as of now seized control of everything except two locale in Helmand.
On Monday the delegate legislative head of Helmand whined of an absence of government backing in a public statement on Facebook to President Ashraf Ghani.
"Helmand will fall to the foes and it's not care for Kunduz, where we could dispatch an operation from the air terminal to retake it. That is simply outlandish and a fantasy," he composed.
In September, the Taliban quickly overran the northern Afghan city of Kunduz in one of their greatest triumphs subsequent to 2001.
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