30 June 2008, 14:39

Bagapsh blames Georgian special agencies of Sukhumi terror act

President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh has treated the today's explosions near the Sukhumi marketplace to be an act of terrorism and accused Georgian special services for committing it.

Sergey Bagapsh has also ordered starting from July 1 to ban any traffic in Georgian-Abkhazian border that runs along River Ingur.

"I resolutely stop any traffic across the border without my special instruction," President said addressing his power agents.

We remind you that today six persons have received various gravity wounds as a result of explosions in the area of Sukhumi central marketplace.

In total, there were two explosions. The first one damaged nobody.

On June 29, at 8:10 a.m. Moscow time, two explosions took place also in Gagra, in which six women-residents of this resort city were wounded.

Five out of these six women injured as a result of explosions in Gagra, Abkhazia, have been already let home after medical aid rendered. One woman, born in 1974, with a fragmental wound in the eye was urgently brought to Sochi. This was reported to journalists at the Gagra Militia Station.

Author: Anzhela Kuchuberiya, CK correspondent

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