Two Policemen Injured at S.Ossetian Border

Two Georgian policemen were lightly wounded after their pick-up truck came under “intensive fire” at the village of Dvani, close to the South Ossetian administrative border, on January 19, the Georgian Interior Ministry said.

It said that fire was opened from the areas controlled by the South Ossetian militias at about 5pm local time and lasted for 20 minutes, when the police truck was patrolling the village of Dvani in the south-west from Tskhinvali.

The Georgian media sources reported that the Georgian policemen returned fire. Rustavi 2 TV reported that some attackers “apparently were also wounded” in exchange of shooting.

A Georgian policeman was killed in a shooting incident on January 16 at the South Ossetian administrative border and on January 18 a policeman was injured at the Abkhaz administrative border.

A total of eleven Georgian policemen have been killed in the areas close to the breakaway regions’ administrative border after the August war.

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