(Tbilisi. April 8, 2003. Civil Georgia) – Law enforcers of the unrecognized Abkhaz Republic search for nine prisoners escaped from Sokhumi jail on April 7.
Abkhaz authorities suppose that the jailbreakers might find shelter in Kodori gorge, which is the only part of breakaway Abkhazia controlled by the Georgian authorities.
Georgian State Security Minister Valeri Khaburdzania at the briefing today said that the jailbreakers are not on Georgian-controlled territory at the moment.
De facto Vice-President of Abkhazia Valeri Arshba told Civil Georgia today that there are Georgians, Chechens as well as Abkhazians among the jailbreakers. He also confirmed that some of them were sentenced for death penalty.
?Prisoners could escape with the assistance of the jail guard,? Arshba added.
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