09 August 2008, 13:18
Tskhinvali residents have no potable water, electricity and gas
Because of huge destructions, Tskhinvali now experiences sharp shortage of potable water and absence of gas and electricity.
This night, Irina Gagloeva, official spokesman of the government of South Ossetia, has stated that periodic bombardments of Tskhinvali prevent to organize evacuation of wounded persons, women and children, and to count total victims of combat clashes in the city.
According to Ms Gagloeva, today one of the most urgent problems in Tskhinvali is the absence of potable water. "Prior to the storm, the Georgian party had destroyed the water supply utilities, and since then its shortage is even worse than absence foodstuffs and medicines," the Interfax quotes Irina Gagloeva as saying. The city is also completely cut off from gas and electricity.
The Deutsche Welle Radio reports that residents of Tbilisi are also getting ready for the worst. They buy essential foodstuffs and fear that no gas from Russian will soon arrive. Besides, people are afraid that should Tbilisi be bombarded, the available bomb shelters, which are in pitiable condition, will not shelter properly any longer.
The situation in the capital of Georgia, same as in Tskhinvali, is strained. President of Georgia has announced a total mobilization of reservists, and it touches on almost every family, since practically every family has a man who had undergone a series of three two-week courses, the Radio correspondent notes.
Hospitals of Georgia experience a deficit of donor blood. Doctors are appealing to the population through the press inviting them to give blood for wounded people. Meanwhile, as the "Echo Moskvy" Radio reports there are no official data about the number of the victims arriving to hospitals.
