TBILISI. Sept 17 (Interfax-AVN) - A local resident, Paata Khachapuridze, was seriously wounded near the village of Okona in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, Georgia's Rustavi-2 television station has claimed.
The local resident was wounded when gunfire was opened by South Ossetian armed formation at the car in which he and another resident of a Georgian village were traveling.
Khachapuridze was taken to a hospital.
He was wounded in the head and stomach and is in serious condition, Rustavi-2 quoted Nugzar Eradze, a physician at a hospital in Tbilisi, where the wounded man was rushed to, as saying.
No official comments on these reports have been released by the Georgian Interior Ministry.