Reports: Two Die in Abkhaz Blasts
Two people were killed after an explosive device, placed in a garbage can in breakaway Abkhazia’s resort town of Gagra, went off on August 12, the Russian news agencies reported.
No one was injured in a separate explosion later on the same day in the breakaway region’s capital Sokhumi.
Explosion in Gagra occurred at about 4:50pm local time killing a 57-year-old woman and injuring at least four people; one of them, a 35-year-old man, died later in hospital, Russian news agencies Itar-Tass and Kavkazsky Uzel reported.
Vladimir Putin, who was visiting Sokhumi at the time of explosion in Gagra, said at a joint news conference with the Abkhaz leader, Sergey Bagapsh, that the blast was “echoes” of the last year’s war.
“We can still see those echoes even today and the incident in Gagra is a confirmation to that,” Putin said.
In a second incident an explosive device, placed close to the seashore, went off at about 8:20pm local time in Sokhumi. According to the Russian news agencies, by the time of second explosion, PM Putin had already departed from Sokhumi back to Sochi, Russia’s Black Sea resort less then 50 kilometers away from Abkhazia.
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