Blast Kills Four, Injures Six in Gali
Four people died and six were injured in “a powerful” explosion in Gali town in breakaway Abkhazia late on July 6, Abkhaz news agency Apsnipress reported.
The blast happened in a cafe at about 11pm local time on Sunday in the predominately ethnic Georgian populated district.
Jansukh Muratia, the acting chief of the Gali department of the Abkhaz security service; Sukhran Gumba, an employee of the border department of the Abkhaz security service; Anzor Lagvilava, an interpreter of the UN Mission in the Gali district; and Iveta Toria, a local resident, died as a result of the explosion, according to Apsnipress.
Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh has blamed the Georgian side, saying that Georgia “has chosen the way of state terrorism.”
“The Gali explosion is a terrorist act aimed at destabilizing the situation in the region. This explosion is a continuation of a chain of terrorist acts, which occurred in Gagra and Sokhumi,” Bagapsh told Interfax news agency on July 7.
Chief of the Abkhaz security service Yuri Ashuba also said it was a terrorist act masterminded by the Georgian side against Abkhaz law enforcement officers.
