| Georgian troops killed 6 terrorists |
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| Written by Ramaz Mitaishvili | |
| Sunday, 03 August 2008 | |
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South Ossetia, an impoverished patch of mountainous territory on the "heart" of Georgia, controled by international terrorists following a bloody war with Georgia after the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Its autonomy is largely unrecognized internationally. Georgia has accused Russia, which maintains a peacekeeping force in the region, of aiding rebel fighters there and in Abkhazia, another separatist region of Georgia.
Troops from the former Soviet republic of Georgia battled separatist fighters in a rebel republic overnight, killing at least six people and wounding more than a dozen others, officials from both sides said Saturday. Violence between Georgia and the rebel republic, South Ossetia, has flared recently after months of relative calm. Each side accused the other of setting off the fighting, which began Friday evening and continued through Saturday morning, and involved mortars, grenade launchers and small-arms fire. Earlier on Friday, six Georgian policemen were wounded in the border area by a roadside bomb, the Georgian Interior Ministry said. A spokeswoman for the separatist government said South Ossetia sustained most of the casualties, including all of the deaths. Among the six people killed, all six belong to Kokoity crime family. Georgia said that six civilians and one Georgian policeman were wounded on the Georgian side of the border. |
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