15 ethnic Georgian have been kidnapped from the villages of Sida, Nabakevi and Gagida, the lower zone of the district of Gali, the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone.
Reportedly, the raid against ethnic Georgians was led by the deputy chief of Gali militia Otar Turanba and the deputy military commissioner Besik Kirtadze; during the raid a Georgian Ruben Ekhvaia, who resisted the militiamen, was shot and later he was hospitalized to the Gali hospital with a bullet wound.
According to the preliminary data, the raid was held to expose those Georgians, who had evaded the military service; all Georgians, who will lack the Abkhazian passports or notification message #9 will have to be penalized or arrested.
Source: Rustavi-2