World IN BRIEF : GEORGIA : Abkhazia Deputy Premier Slain
The deputy prime minister of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia was shot to death in his home, news agencies reported. They said the attackers opened fire on Yuri Voronov, 47, a Parliament deputy and independence advocate, Monday night. Police detained two suspects Tuesday. The Itar-Tass news agency said the suspects are not Abkhazian. Sokrat Dzhinzholiya, Speaker of Abkhazia’s Parliament, charged that the killing was political. The Abkhazia Autonomous Republic broke away from the former Soviet republic of Georgia in 1993 after a yearlong ethnic war.
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