Georgian PM & Georgia deputy governor, in gas leak
Posted: Thursday, February 3rd, 2005 2:36 amJR’s note: Especially in light on the suspected Yuschenko dioxin poisoning, doesn’t this sound a tad fishy?
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who helped lead the revolution that toppled the corruption-tainted regime of Eduard Shevardnadze, was killed Thursday by an apparent natural gas leak, the ex-Soviet republic’s interior minister said.
Zhvania, 41, was at a friend’s apartment when the leak occurred, Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said in a live television broadcast.
“It is an accident,” Merabishvili said. “We can say that poisoning by gas took place.”
Security guards broke through a window early Thursday when they heard no signs of life inside the apartment several hours after the prime minister arrived, Merabishvili said. Zhvania’s host, Zurab Usupov, deputy governor of Georgia’s Kvemo-Kartli region, also died. … Read full story
