Georgian rebels tried to shoot down president, US senators
Afp, Tbilisi
Georgia accused rebels yesterday of forcing down a helicopter carrying the defence minister and firing on another helicopter transporting President Mikheil Saakashvili and a delegation of US senators. Tensions rose Monday in the rebel province of South Ossetia, on the border of ex-Soviet Georgia and Russia, with both separatist forces and a Russian peacekeeping contingent announcing they were on heightened alert, Russian news agencies reported. Defence Minister Irakli Okruashvili said that his Mi-8 helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing Sunday after taking fire over the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
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