TBILISI. Aug 6 (Interfax-AVN) - Law-enforcers have registered an increase in the number of men, mostly natives of Chechnya, on the outskirts of the Omalo and Duisi villages in Georgia's Akhmeta district, a spokesman for the Georgian Interior Ministry told Interfax-Military News Agency on Tuesday.
"According to data available to Georgian law-enforcement agencies, guerrillas who attempted to cross the Georgian-Russian border are again trying to find shelter in earlier established bases in the Georgian Pankisi gorge after the defeat of a rebel group led by field commander Khasan in Chechnya's Itum-Kale district," the spokesman said.
He stressed that a field hospital had been established at a base near Duisi. Approaches to the base are thoroughly guarded by armed people in camouflage uniform. The base was established for long-term defense with the help of foreign military specialists, the spokesman added.