28 April 2008, 10:38

Abkhazia refutes information about attack on the branch of the Danish Council on Refugees

Abkhazia has denied the news about the attack on the office of the branch of the Danish Council on Refugees in the Galskiy District of Republic that was undertaken today at night, according to the information of Georgian TV Companies.

"I hear it for the first time," Laurens Kogoniya, head of the District Interior Unit, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

One of the employees of the office of the Danish Council on Refugees, who preferred to remain anonymous, said "she knows nothing of the sort."

Let us note here that according to the news items broadcasted by Tbilisi TV Companies, with references to their sources in the Galskiy District of Abkhazia, in the city of Gal unknown persons attacked today at night the office of the branch of the Danish Council on Refugees, operating there.

According to the eyewitnesses - residents of the Galskiy District, some 10 armed persons drove to the office in two cars, rushed into the building, roped the watchman and destroyed all the equipment, including computers, with their sub-machine guns. The attackers also shelled the cars in the office yard and then disappeared in the direction of the city of Ochamchir.

The ITAR-TASS reports that the office of the Danish Council on Refugees kept materials on violations of human rights in the Galskiy and Tkvarchelskiy Districts of Abkhazia.

Author: Anzhela Kuchuberiya, CK correspondent

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