South Ossetia's MIA: explosion in Tskhinval was a terror act

Mikhail Mindzaev, Minister of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia, has stated, as quoted by the web site of the Committee for Information and Press, that the explosion that was heard today morning in a suburb of the city of Tskhinval, which caused an injury of a person, was an act of terror.

"The today's act of terror is an element of the plot implemented by Georgian special services to destabilize the situation before the Day of the Republic," Mr Mindzaev said.

The eyewitnesses of the incident has explained to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Igor Kokoev, 24, was going to his work: "At the roadside, he saw a mobile telephone hidden in the grass. At that moment the telephone started ringing. When Kokoev bent down to pick it up, the telephone exploded."

A source at the Republic's Somatic Hospital has informed that Kokoev received multiple fragmental wounds all over his body. "The vitally important organs were not injured," the source has noted.

The district of the accident is adjacent to South Ossetian Tamarasheni village inhabited by Georgians. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia could not exclude that the traces of the terror act lead to Georgia.

We remind you that a similar incident happened in South Ossetia on November 23 last year. On that day a mobile phone exploded in the hands of Denisa Shartava, a resident of Tskhinval, and the victim's left wrist was amputated.