Georgia: Car bomb blast was an act of political terrorism

At least four people were killed and dozens wounded when a &to=http:// english.pravda.ru/hotspots/2002/06/05/29797.html ' target=_blank>car bomb exploded outside a regional police headquarters building in the Georgian city of Gori, an interior ministry spokesman told AFP.

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The blast heavily damaged the three-story building and several other cars in the vicinity, the spokesman said Tuesday.

"A car exploded, it was an attack," said the spokesman who asked not to be named. "It was a very powerful explosion and there are many civilian casualties from the blast, which also badly damaged the building," a regional police administrative center, writes the Turkish Press.

It was not clear who was behind the bombing, which happened just a few kilometers (miles) outside the breakaway region of &to=http:// english.pravda.ru/main/18/87/344/13373_ossetia.html ' target=_blank>South Ossetia. President Mikhail Saakashvili said the bombers wanted to derail tentative peace moves between Tbilisi and the breakaway regime, which is tacitly backed by neighbor &to=http:// english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/93/374/14454_abkhazia.html' target=_blank>Russia. "We should not give the enemies of peace the opportunity to wreck the peace process," Saakashvili said after an unscheduled meeting of Georgia's national security council. "What happened (was) an act of political &to=http:// english.pravda.ru/main/18/87/347/10444_chechen.html ' target=_blank>terrorism." Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili said the bombing was planned outside Georgia, but did not say where, informs Reuters.

According to the Ireland Online, Gori is the capital of Georgia’s Shida Kartli region, which is adjacent to South Ossetia – one of two separatist regions that have run their own affairs since wars with Georgia’s central government in the early 1990s.

Georgia has also been plagued by violent crime, often linked with its large shadow economy, since the Soviet collapse of 1991.

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