URGENT: Senior Official: said Russia had bombed Tbilisi’s international airport
Interior Ministry said Russian fighter jets dropped 3 bombs and Reuters correspondents have reported hearing 3 large explosionsrnTBILISI, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Loud explosions rocked Georgia’s capital early on Sunday, and a senior official said Russia had bombed Tbilisi’s international airport.rnrn“Russian jet fighters have dropped three bombs on Tbilisi’s airport,” Shota Utiashvili, the head of the Georgian Interior Ministry’s information department, told Reuters.rnrnReuters correspondents working in Tbilisi heard the three loud bangs shortly after 0530 (0130 GMT).
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- Aug 10, 2008







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