"Blast kills teen in South Ossetia
TBILISI, Georgia: A South Ossetian official says a teenager was killed when a land mine exploded in the breakaway Georgian region.
Spokeswoman for South Ossetia's separatist government Irina Gagloeva says the victim was a 13-year-old boy who was grazing cows near the border with Georgia. The Interfax news agency says the mine exploded after the boy picked it up.
In Abkhazia's main city, police are investigating an explosion that hit a car outside the region's security service headquarters early Thursday. No injuries were reported.
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"Blast rocks Georgian rebel region
SUKHUMI, Georgia (AFP) — A car bomb exploded in Abkhazia on Thursday, damaging residential and law enforcement buildings and prompting mutual accusations between Tbilisi and leaders in the rebel Georgian province.
The incident came as a 13-year-old boy was killed by an explosive device near the main city in Georgia's other rebel region, South Ossetia, the separatist information agency there said.
The car bomb in Abkhazia's main city of Sukhumi caused no injuries but blew out the windows and doors of several apartment blocks and the building of the region's internal security service.
Officials and a doorman at the security service building said the blast was caused by explosives packed in a Russian-made Lada car. Blaming Tbilisi for the blast, the Abkhaz separatists' foreign minister, Sergei Shamba, said: "Such explosions are an activity of Georgian secret services with which we are well-acquainted.... We simply have no domestic reasons for such terror acts," Interfax reported.
