Two servicemen from a Georgian special-task unit have been killed in a shootout with Abkhaz policemen near the village of Gumrish in the republic\'s Tkvarcheli district, spokesman for the Abkhaz Interior Ministry Kristian Bzhania told Interfax in Friday. \"In a routine mission, Abkhaz policemen spotted a group of seven gunmen dressed in camouflage hiding out in a forested area last night. They opened fire when the policemen tried to detain them. Two gunmen were killed on the spot and the others managed to escape,\" Bzhania said. The men killed are being identified, he said, adding that two assault rifles, a U.S.-made army knife, a folded parachute, flasks of alcohol, syringes, painkillers, and drug-containing anti-allergy medicines were confiscated from them. \"What has been confiscated from the men killed allows us to conclude that they belonged to a Georgian special-task unit,\" he said. Abkhazia, along with South Ossetia, is legally a province of Georgia, but a conflict in the 1990s led to its de facto independence. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is seeking to restore control over these two breakaway republics. (Interfax)