One killed after attempted break-in to Georgia’s National Military Training Centre

UPDATED: 11:38 Monday

Georgia’s Defence Ministry has this morning released more details about an attempted break-in into the country’s national military training centre, which claimed the life of one of the attackers yesterday. 

The Ministry said several facts were revealed after an investigation was promptly launched after the incident.

• Three people tried to break into the Krtsanisi National Training Centre at the Krtsanisi settlement, outside Georgia’s capital Tbilisi at about 3.30am yesterday.
• A military servant guarding the facility verbally warned the assailants to stop but they ignored his request. The trio threw a fire extinguisher at the guard to provoke him.
• The guard fired a warning shot into the air.
• The assailants did not appear to stop their provocation, so the guard fired in their direction. The three attackers leapt over a barbed wire fence around the facility and ran away. 

In a statement the Ministry of Defence said the guard acted in line with regulations. The Ministry said the attackers were aggressive, did not obey a legal request from the guard and the situation appeared dangerous. 

The Military Police searched the territory in and around the national military training centre shortly after the incident and came across the dead body of one of the assailants. The body was located 97 metres away from the National Training Centre. 

The Ministry has identified the dead man. Police were now searching for the other two attackers.

At the site police found several items of interest, including:

• A mobile phone
• a hand lantern
• a pistol
• five cartridges for an AK-74 assault rifle

An investigation is underway and forensic police were carrying out examinations at the scene.

EARLIER: 18:27. Sunday

One person has been killed after a small group of people attempted to break into the country's national military training centre in the early hours of this morning.

Earlier this evening Georgia’s Defence Ministry issued a statement saying several unidentified people tried to break into the Krtsanisi National Training Centre at the Krtsanisi settlement, outside Georgia’s capital Tbilisi at about 3.30am today.

Several unknown people did not obey a verbal warning by a sentry and attacked him, after which the sentry took action envisaged in the charter and he stopped an invasion into the centre's territory," the statement read.

Staff of the Military Police Department of the Defence Ministry searched the territory around the centre and found the body of one of the attackers.”

An investigation was launched into the attempted break in for "negligence that resulted in a person's death”. The investigation was being carried out by the Military Police under supervision of the country’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office.

The Krtsanisi Training Centre is operated by the Georgian Armed Forces Joint Staff Military Training and Education Command.