Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania Found Dead

Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania was found dead in his friend?s apartment in Tbilisi on early hours of February 3, Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili announced.

?We know that Zurab Zhvania came to his friend?s apartment approximately at midnight on February 2. As Zurab Zhvania was not responding to his mobile phone and no one was opening the door for a long period, his bodyguard broke through the window at approximately 4:30 am [local time]. He [the bodyguard] found the dead bodies of Zurab Zhvania and his friend in the apartment.  It was a misfortune. We can say that it was gas poisoning [from the faulty heater],? Vano Merabishvili said.

He said that Zhvania?s friend whom the Prime Minister was visiting, was Deputy Governor of Kvemo Kartli Region Raul Usupov.

Merabishvili also said that Zurab Zhvania was found dead sitting on the armchair, while his friend died in the kitchen.