Georgia: 3 georgian soldiers and 11 members of an armed group from Dagestan killed in clash
Three Georgian troops died and five were wounded in a clash with “a squad of saboteurs” during an operation in the Kakheti region, close to the Dagestan section of the Georgian-Russian border, the Georgian Interior Ministry said in a statement released shortly before 4pm local time on Wednesday.
Two of the killed Georgian troops were from the Interior Ministry’s special purpose unit and one was an army corporal, who served as a doctor with the Defense Ministry’s special operations forces
“11 members of the armed group have been liquidated,” it said.
“Currently six saboteurs are surrounded. Measures are ongoing aimed at their detention,” the Interior Ministry said.