01 October 2008, 14:17

Resident of South Ossetia killed, another wounded by shelling at Georgian border

A group of residents of Otrev village, Tskhinvali District of South Ossetia, was shelled near Georgian border, as a result, one person was lost and one was wounded. The Republic's MIS asserts that the attack was committed by members of a Georgian raiding group.

The incident in the village inhabited by Georgians took place on September 30, at about 2 p.m. A VAZ car with three passengers was shelled, and one of them, born in 1968, died in situ from received wounds, the "Interfax" reports with reference to the press service of the MIA of South Ossetia. Another passenger, born in 1946, was taken with gunshot wounds to the Republic's Traumatic Hospital of Tskhinvali. The forty-year-old driver managed to disappear from the place of the incident.

The investigation of the crime is conducted by the State Office of Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia, as runs the statement of the State Committee for Information and Press; the statement also says with reference to the Republic's MIA that "the action was committed by unidentified Georgian nationals who disappeared from the crime in direction of Georgian territory, i.e., in the safety zone."

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