Train load of oil products, blown up in Georgia, belongs to Azerbaijani Azpetrol - UPDATED

25.08.08

11:43

K2Kapital website reports with reference to civil.ge website, according to Georgian powers, the carriage, blown up in Georgia, belonged to Azerbaijani Azpetrol.

The undamaged carriages with the emblem of Azpetrol, which owns petrol stations in Georgia and Azerbaijan, were shown on the Georgian Television.

No victims were reported but 2 nearby houses are said to be damaged.

By information of the Georgian railway company, the blown up carriage moved by an alternative route bypassing the previously exploded bridge at Caspi city,

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24.08.08

14:23

Georgian firemen failed to extinguish the fire, spreading on the fuel carriage in the result of a heavy blast on a military base of Georgian Defense Ministry in Skra village, 8 kilometers of Gori.

According to a source from the Georgian Ministry, cisterns load of gasoline and diesel fuel ignited in the result of an explosion on the base.

Currently, 13 cisterns are burning and 24 other cisterns were carried to a safe place.

An anti-fire carriage arrived to the Skra village, yet the efforts of the firemen were not successful.

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14:15

Interfax reports an explosion of ammunitions on a military base in Skra village near Gori with reference to Georgia mass media. Ammunitions were kept in carriages. It is unclear where the same or different explosions were meant.

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13:52

Russian troops still remain in Poti. The situation on their block is changeless. Servicemen continue digging trenches, where the military technique is locating.

One of the Russian blocks is in Nabadi, from where the road extends to the seaport. Russian troops strive to control the movement of all humanitarian cargo, leaving the port.

There is still one Russian block in the territory of the Sachkherj region.

Russian servicemen were first in Jria and Perevi villages, yet they stepped back to two kilometers and left the Jria village.

They are currently in Perevi village, which borders on the Ossetian controlled Jav region.

According to head of Sachkher region Zurab Tsertsvadze, talks are held for the Russian servicemen to dislocate in Java territory at the Perevi border.

Only soldiers are left on the Perevi post, has been fully withdrawn from the region.

According to local residents, Russian servicemen are not aggressive, yet the population demands to eliminate this block.

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13:50

The details of the explosion of the oil carriage near Gori city.

The Internal Ministry of Georgia reported that the carriage hit a mine.

The consequences of the explosion are not reported. The carriage was transporting combustion agents. "The carriage, transporting fuel, was blown up", said spokesman for the Georgian Interior Ministry Shota Utiashvili. He said there was a mine on the way of the carriage.

As is known, Russian servicemen mined all military objects as well as objects of civil infrastructure. There were explosive assemblies with timing on some of them.

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13:46

US USS McFaul naval vessels arrived in Batumi with a humanitarian aid for Georgia, reports Reuters.

He said there are beds and foodstuffs for Georgian refugees. Two other vessels of the US marine forces arrived in Batumi later.

The United States have earlier supplied a shipment of humanitarian aid by an air force jet.

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13:43

Withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia, President Dmitri Medvedev promised to complete on Friday, still continues. Russian soldiers still remain on several blocks in Western Georgia.

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13:40

Chairman of the US Committee on External Ties Richard Lugar, visiting Georgia, is meeting with Georgian officials, including Georgian state minister on reintegration Temur Yakobashvili, members of Georgian parliament, Georgian Prime Minister Vladimir Gurgenidze.

Upon completion of the visit, Richard Lugar will hold a press conference at Tbilisi airport at 16:00.

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13:35

A blast occurred on the territory of self-declared South Ossetia on the storage of captured Gergian ammunitions, locating in the northeastern part of Tskhinvali on Saturday everning.

The shrapnels of the ammunitions scattered at a distance of up to 800 meters, falling on the roofs of nearby houses.

The storage of captured ammunitions is near a base, equipped by the Russian Emergency Ministry.

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13:30

A blast occurred at a railway cross in Skra village in the Gori region at about 11:00 Sunday. Cisterns load of oil are burning on the site of the blast.

/Novosti-Gruziya, Gruziya-Online, Lenta.ru, Interfax, K2Kapital/