MOSCOW. Dec 12 (Interfax-AVN) - Two servicemen of the South Ossetian Interior Ministry died while pursuing a team of Georgian saboteurs, a spokesman for the South Ossetian press and information committee said on Monday.
"While pursuing a Georgian saboteur team that tried to enter the vicinity of the Zar road on Sunday, two Interior Ministry servicemen died when they touched off landmines," the spokesman told Interfax-Military News Agency by phone.
The posts established to protect the road detected the saboteur team on time, he stressed. "Interior Ministry forces launched a pursuit operation, but while retreating the saboteurs set anti-personnel mines, and the servicemen touched them off," he noted.
The spokesman stressed that "it is the Georgian authorities who are fully to blame for the death of Interior Ministry servicemen, because it is the Georgian authorities who are conducting full-scale subversive and terrorist activity in South Ossetia."