By empty (8/19/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Contrary to earlier reports, three rather than six Georgian servicemen were killed and seven others wounded in the Tskhinvali conflict area last night, a Georgian Defense Minister official told Interfax on Thursday. The wounded men are in serious conditions, he said. An official in the Georgian Sheeta Kartli area police said earlier on Thursday that six Georgian servicemen were killed and seven wounded when Ossetians shelled Georgian positions Wednesday evening.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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