TBILISI. July 8 (Interfax-AVN) - The administration of the Georgian district of Shida Kartli, within which the breakaway republic of South Ossetia is located, claimed that two policemen were wounded after South Ossetian forces attacked a Georgian police outpost located between the communities of Eredvi and Tamarasheni, and the fates of two others remain unclear.
The wounded policemen have been delivered to a hospital in the village of Kurta, and the missing men are being searched for in nearby villages, the administration said.
Meanwhile, Vazha Khachapuridze, deputy administration head of the Tskhinvali district, which has a predominantly Georgian population, told Rustavi-2 television in a telephone interview that "Russian peacekeepers took part in the capture of about 40 Georgian policemen in the village of Vanati on Thursday morning."
A South Ossetian military unit entered Vanati on Thursday morning to disarm 50 Georgian servicemen stationed there. Tskhinvali has said the Georgian servicemen had no right to be in that village, because there had been no agreements allowing for the stationing of even a peacekeeping outpost there.