Sunday, 07 January 2007

PASSENGERS OF BUS EN ROUTE TO ISTANBUL ROBBED IN GEORGIA

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By empty (1/7/2007 issue of the CACI Analyst)

A group of gunmen stopped a Turkish bus en route from Tbilisi to Istanbul outside the village of Japana in the west of Georgia early on Sunday morning, ordering all of its passengers to hand over their money and valuables, Georgia\'s Rustavi-2 television reported. Nobody was killed or injured in the incident, some of the passengers told a Rustavi-2 correspondent. Officials of the Georgian Interior Ministry have so far been unavailable for comment.
A group of gunmen stopped a Turkish bus en route from Tbilisi to Istanbul outside the village of Japana in the west of Georgia early on Sunday morning, ordering all of its passengers to hand over their money and valuables, Georgia\'s Rustavi-2 television reported. Nobody was killed or injured in the incident, some of the passengers told a Rustavi-2 correspondent. Officials of the Georgian Interior Ministry have so far been unavailable for comment. (Interfax)
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