Six blasts occurred Sunday on both sides of the border of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, leaving one person dead and 10 injured, news reaching here quoted Georgian officials as said.
One of the blasts took place in a cafe in Abkhazia's Gali region where one local security department chief was killed and 10others were wounded, a spokesman for the Abkhazia government said.
In addition, four mines exploded in a village in a region near Abkhazia controlled by Georgia, according to an official of the Georgian Interior Ministry.
The sixth bomb, which went off in a village in Abkhazia, looked like a mortar round, witnesses said.
Abkhazia, bordering Russia in the north, declared independence from Georgia in the 1990s after the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991. But its self-proclaimed independence has yet to win international recognition.
Ties between Abkhazia and Georgia have been tense for a long time. An uneasy ceasefire is being monitored by peacekeepers from Russia.
Source:Xinhua
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