By empty (5/20/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Updated reports indicate that six Russian peacekeepers were killed in a road accident in Abkhazia\'s Gali district, aide to the Russian Ground Forces commander Col. Igor Konashenkov told Interfax on Saturday. \"An armored personnel carrier moving toward the Kodori Gorge in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone for engineering reconnaissance on Saturday overturned near Gali, killing six servicemen from the Russian peacekeeping contingent,\" Konashenkov said.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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