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Shots Fired at OSCE Patrol Vehicle
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 10 Dec.'08 / 18:07

An OSCE patrol’s armored vehicle was fired at close to the Georgian village of Khviti, few kilometers away from the South Ossetian administrative border, the Georgian Interior Ministry said.

It said that the shots were fired “from the direction of the territory controlled by the [South] Ossetian side.”

OSCE Mission in Georgia has confirmed that the firing took place.

“A firing incident has taken place involving an unarmed OSCE monitoring patrol,” OSCE mission’s spokesperson, Martha Freeman, told Civil.Ge. “The full details are being looked into.”

Both OSCE mission and the Georgian Interior Ministry said that there were no casualties as a result of the incident.

The Georgian television showed pictures of the OSCE patrol’s SUV, which was hit by bullets. 

Vladimer Jugeli, a local police chief, said the OSCE vehicle was hit by ten bullets.

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