MIA: Booby Trap Injures Man at S.Ossetia Administrative Border

A 26-year-old Georgian man was badly wounded in what the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said was "a hand-grenade booby trap" explosion close to the breakaway South Ossetia’s administrative border on May 19.

"Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia condemns the fact of attack on civilian population and calls Russian occupants for stopping attacks on civilians," the ministry said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the authorities in breakaway region said that they had detained six Georgian citizens for "violation of the South Ossetian border" on May 18. They also said that two Georgian teenagers were also detained on the same day for the same reason; they were "warned against the illegal border crossing" and released, a website of the breakaway region’s authorities reported on May 19.

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