TSKHINVALI. May 20 (Interfax) - The South Ossetian president's cousin and the South Ossetian prime minister's chief bodyguard have been killed in Vladikavkaz, the South Ossetian Interior Ministry has reported.
"The persons killed in Vladikavkaz are the South Ossetian prime minister's chief bodyguard and President Eduard Kokoity's cousin, not the president's bodyguards, as was reported earlier," a source in the South Ossetian Interior Ministry told Interfax on Friday.
"The two men were killed in the heat of the moment," he said.