Additional Checkpoints in Pankisi

(Tbilisi, August 30 2002, Civil Georgia) – One additional police checkpoint was added to the existing nine in the Pankisi Gorge.

Head of the Public relations Department, Paata Gomelauri told “Civil Georgia” that the number of checkpoints might increase in the near future.

Large-scale anti-criminal operation began in the Pankisi gorge on august 25.