TBILISI. Aug 16 (Interfax-AVN) - Two Georgian servicemen were killed and several others wounded when the Georgian village of Eredvi outside Tskhinvali was being shelled overnight to Monday.
The artillery attack was launched from the village of Sarabuk, where Georgian and South Ossetian law-enforcement officials had met earlier to set up a tripartite peacekeeping checkpoint, the police of the Shida Kartli district told Interfax.
The police said the fire had been opened at Georgian villages by mercenaries who had been introduced to South Ossetia from the North Caucasus and are not controlled by the Ossetian authorities.
Firing had ceased in the conflict zone by 8 a.m. on Sunday, the police said.
No information from other sources, confirming these reports, is available to Interfax.