Angry Georgians throw gas, paint on Russian peacekeepers in Sth Ossetia

(29 Jun 2007)
South Ossetian-Georgian border
1. Various of military in the hills
2. Mid of sandbags
Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, Georgia
3. Wide of city hospital entrance
4. Mid of military walking at hospital building
5. Wide of medical personnel walking down hospital corridor
9. Wide of of surgery
10. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Georgy Gogichaev, surgeon:
"We received two patients - Tuaev and Nazarov, with bullet wounds. Nazarov was wounded in the chest and has a serious wound in his liver. His chest and liver are being operated on at the moment. Tuaev has a rupture in his bowel, he has a wound in his liver, and his stomach is bleeding."
11. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Mikhail Mindzaev, Minister of Interior of Southern Ossetia:
"At approximately at 8 am Georgian snipers opened fire on our police post from the side of Kheiti village. These actions resulted in the wounding of a civilian and a policeman, they were travelling in a car at the time."
12. Mid of car
13. Close up bullet hole in car bonnet
14. Wide of bombarded building with pull in to close up of apartment window
15. Wide of bombarded building, close up of apartment window
16. Mid with pull out of children sitting on sandbags
17. Sign of hospital intensive care department
18. Wide of relatives in corridor
19. Close up of crying woman
20. Close up hands
21. Close up of old lady weeping
22. Wide of wounded man in hospital bed
23. Close up of wounded man
24. Mid of nurse treating wounded man
25. Close up of nurse tending injured man
26. Close up nurse
27. Mid of medical equipment
Tbilisi, Georgia
28. Wide of government building
29. SOUNDBITE: Guram Vakhtangishvili, Georgian member of Parliament:
"The situation is tense, extremely tense. The current situation is more tense than it has ever been over the seventeen year Georgian-Ossetian conflict."
30. Mid of government officials walking through doors
STORYLINE:
Georgian snipers opened fire on a South Ossetian police post from the Kheiti village, the unrecognised South Ossetian government said on Friday.
A civilian and a policeman travelling in a car were injured in the incident, said Mikhail Mindzaev, Minister of Interior of Southern Ossetia.
"At approximately at 8 am Georgian snipers opened fire on our police post from the side of Kheiti village. These actions resulted in the wounding of a civilian and a policeman, they were travelling in a car at the time."
A residential area in the northern outskirts of the regional capital Tskhinvali was shelled from the Georgian territory, officials said.
Tensions are persisting in South Ossetia, which broke away from Georgian government control during a war in the early 1990s.
Georgian member of parliament Guram Vakhtangishvili said that the tension in the area is worse than ever.
"The situation is tense, extremely tense. The current situation is more tense than it has ever been over the seventeen year Georgian-Ossetian conflict," he told AP Television in the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
Georgia's government has vowed to bring South Ossetia, and the region of Abkhazia, back under control.
South Ossetia, which has a patchwork of ethnic Ossetian and ethnic Georgian villages, has, however, cultivated close ties with Russia, and Georgia accuses Moscow of siding with the separatists.
Earlier this year, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili ordered the creation of a parallel South Ossetian government loyal to Tbilisi, but the provisional administration has effective control only over the villages populated by an estimated 14,000 ethnic Georgians and making up roughly 40 percent of South Ossetia's territory.

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