Aide to dead Georgian PM commits suicide

Posted: Friday, February 4th, 2005 3:40 pm

TBILISI, Feb 4 (AFP) — An aide to Georgian prime minister Zurab Zhvania, who died apparently after breathing toxic fumes leaked by a faulty heater, committed suicide late Friday, an interior ministry spokesman said.

The aide, 32-year-old Georgi Khelashvili, shot himself with a gun in his Tbilisi apartment, the spokesman said.

Khelashvili was a member of Zhavania`s staff, working with the pardons commission, the Mze television channel reported.

It was not yet clear whether Khelashvili`s suicide was linked to Zhvania’s death. … Read full story

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