Shooting Reported at S.Ossetian Administrative Border

Authorities in breakaway South Ossetia said their posts at the administrative border came under fire from machine guns from the direction of the Georgian village of Nikozi early on October 18.

Although Georgian Interior Minister spokesman, Shota Utiashvili, confirmed that a brief shooting, which lasted couple of minutes, took place, he told Civil.Ge, that it seemed that “drunken Russian soldiers” were firing aimlessly. “And now of course they [secessionist authorities] are accusing us,” he added.

A spokesperson of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) told Civil.Ge that monitors in the region heard the shooting, but were still trying to find out what exactly happened.

No casualties were reported.

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