(22 May 2008) SHOTLIST
Khurcha, Georgian/Abkhazian administrative border
++DAY SHOTS++
1. Mid road to de facto Georgian-Abkhaz border guarded by the Georgian soldiers
2. Mid Georgian police walking
3. Wide Georgian soldiers
4. Wide burned bus, experts working inside cordoned off area
5. Mid experts examining the burned bus
6. Mid experts examining the bus
7. Wide pan expert walking
8. Wide experts at the site
9. Soldier with the rifle, burned bus in the background
Zugdidi, western Georgia
++NIGHT SHOTS++
10. Wide Zugdidi hospital
11. Wide hospital ward
12. Close up monitor
13. Mid of doctor treating wounded woman
14. Close up of wounded woman
15. Mid doctors talking
16. Mid hospital corridor
17. Wide Zugdidi hospital with UN armoured car
STORYLINE
Civilians wounded in gunfire that broke out along the administrative border with the breakaway region of Abkhazia were being treated at a hospital in western Georgia on Wednesday, as experts examined the site where the shootout occurred.
Two woman taken to the hospital in Zugdidi were seriously injured.
The incident take place in the village of Kurcha.
Abkhazian forces fired on two buses carrying Georgian residents of Abkhazia who had crossed into Georgian-controlled territory to vote in Georgia's parliamentary election, and several people were wounded, Georgian Interior Ministry official Shota Utiashvili said.
AP Television footage showed Georgian experts examining two damaged buses at the scene.
An exit poll and partial returns on Thursday showed President Mikhail Saakashvili's ruling party winning a strong majority in Georgia's parliamentary election, a result his opponents immediately challenged.
Hostility between Georgia and Abkhazia has escalated in recent weeks, with each side accusing the other of preparing for military action.
Russia, which is angered by Saakashvili's push to join NATO, has stepped up its support for Abkhazia and bolstered its peacekeeping force in the separatist province.
The opposition parties share Saakashvili's wariness of Russia and his pro-Western views, so the heightened tension over Abkhazia has been more a platform for scoring points than for major policy debate.
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