South Ossetia says fatalities over 1,000 - RIA
Fri Aug 8, 2008 9:08pm IST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Minister in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia said more than a thousand people had died in overnight shelling by Georgian forces of their capital Tskhinvali, RIA news agency reported.
"According to our information, as a result of the night-time shelling of Tskhinvali, there has been a large number of victims ... the number of fatalities is more than a thousand," the South Ossetian Nationalites Minister, Teimuraz Kasaev, told the news agency by telephone.
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