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Georgia police officer slain near Russian checkpoint
by Dave Keating | September 10, 2008 at 03:43 am | 137 views | 3 comments | 15 recommendations
Russian soldiers have shot and killed a Georgian police officer at a checkpoint, a day after they agreed to withdraw from Georgia proper in a treaty with the EU.
A Georgian policeman was shot and killed on Wednesday near a Russian checkpoint in Georgia, Georgia's Interior Ministry said.
A Red Cross convy at a Russian checkpoint at the Georgian village of Karaleti Tuesday.
The ministry called it the first law enforcement or military casualty since the cease-fire between Russia and Georgia last month.
The incident, which Georgia called an "attack," occurred in the village of Karaleti -- just a few hundred meters south of a Russian checkpoint, the ministry said, adding that the shooting came from the direction of the checkpoint.
Russian authorities had no immediate comment.
September 10, 2008 at 03:43 am by Dave Keating, 137 views, 3 comments
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