OB Kenobi
07-10-2004, 03:34 AM
Things are heating up over there. If this keeps up, Georgia's new president may have a very short career...
More shooting in breakaway Georgian region
MOSCOW, (AFP) - Fresh gunfire has broken out in the restive Georgian region of South Ossetia, which borders Russia, the Russian television station NTV said.
The shooting came after an incident late on Friday in which unidentified Georgian gunmen opened fire at a security checkpoint in the breakaway region, injuring a number of policemen according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
NTV said that Saturday's shooting, involving automatic weapons, occurred between the villages of Pris and Eredvi, which are in the same region as the incidents on Friday.
Pris is mainly inhabited by ethnic Ossetians, and Friday's report said that ethnic Georgian gunmen had attacked an Ossetian checkpoint there.
South Ossetia, which borders the Russian republic of North Ossetia in the volatile Caucasus region, won de facto independence from the rest of Georgia during a conflict in the early 1990s, in which the South Ossetians had support from Russia.
Tensions have been rising in the region since Thursday, when separatist Ossetian activists detained a group of some 40 Georgian army soldiers. They were released on Friday.
More shooting in breakaway Georgian region
MOSCOW, (AFP) - Fresh gunfire has broken out in the restive Georgian region of South Ossetia, which borders Russia, the Russian television station NTV said.
The shooting came after an incident late on Friday in which unidentified Georgian gunmen opened fire at a security checkpoint in the breakaway region, injuring a number of policemen according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
NTV said that Saturday's shooting, involving automatic weapons, occurred between the villages of Pris and Eredvi, which are in the same region as the incidents on Friday.
Pris is mainly inhabited by ethnic Ossetians, and Friday's report said that ethnic Georgian gunmen had attacked an Ossetian checkpoint there.
South Ossetia, which borders the Russian republic of North Ossetia in the volatile Caucasus region, won de facto independence from the rest of Georgia during a conflict in the early 1990s, in which the South Ossetians had support from Russia.
Tensions have been rising in the region since Thursday, when separatist Ossetian activists detained a group of some 40 Georgian army soldiers. They were released on Friday.