One Wounded in Gunfire at S.Ossetian Border

An employee of the breakaway South Ossetia’s prosecutor’s office was badly wounded in gunfire at the administrative border on November 19, both the South Ossetian and Georgian sources reported.

The South Ossetian Press and Information Committee reported that a group of investigators from the prosecutor’s office arrived in the village of Ksuisi at to the administrative border to investigate a reported murder of a local resident. It said that the group’s vehicle came under fire from the neighboring village of Mereti on the Georgian side of the administrative border. The injured man, according to this report, was later hospitalized in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia.

Local residents in the Georgian village told the Georgian television station, Rustavi 2, that Georgian police unit opened “warning fire” when a vehicle of South Ossetian militias entered into the Georgian village. “They [South Ossetians] returned fire and after that there was an exchange of gunfire,” a local resident said.

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