5 dead, 3 injured, 2 missing in tragic accident in Tusheti
The road leading to Georgia's iconic mountainous region of Tusheti is considered as one of the world’s most dangerous roads. Photo: Roads Department/Facebook
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Five people, including a minor and a driver, have died in a car accident that occurred yesterday on the road leading to Georgia's iconic mountainous region of Tusheti.
Three people have been hospitalised, while two are still missing.
The rescue teams of the Interior Ministry's Emergency Management Service and doctors arrived on a Border Police helicopter from Tbilisi.
The Emergency Management Service released a video from the place of accident:
A preliminary account states the driver of a Kamaz truck fell into a ravine en route to the village of Omali in Tusheti region.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili expressed her condolences over the tragic accident
I send my condolences to the families of the deceased and would like to wish a fast recovery to those who were injured”, President Zurabishvili wrote on her Facebook page.
Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has also shared his condolences.
Reascuers have saved four American citizens in the village of Omalo, in Georgia’s historical region of Tusheti. The Emergency Management Service of Interior Ministry received information the tourists were injured earlier today. Three women and a man were taken to Ghudushauri hospital in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi for treatment on a Border Police helicopter.
Rescuers have saved a Lithuanian citizen who was stuck on the 4000-meter Mkinvartsveri peak, also known as Kazbegi Mountain. The Emergency Management Service of Interior Ministry received information that a 53-year-old tourist was injured.
Three people have died as a helicopter belonging to Rooms Hotel Kazbegi crashed today in Stepantsminda, region of Kazbegi, Georgia.
6,608 individuals have been killed and up to 85,946 received injuries in Georgia in road accidents over the past ten years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia says.
One person in still missing after a car accident that occurred on the road leading to Georgia's iconic mountainous region of Tusheti on July 27. Six people, including a minor and a driver, died as a truck fell into a ravine en route to the village of Omalo in Tusheti region.
The body of a man who went missing after a car accident that occurred on the road leading to Georgia's iconic mountainous region of Tusheti on July 27 has been found. The rescue teams of the Interior Ministry's Emergency Management Service have been involved in the rescue and searching operations.
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One person is dead after a public bus crashed into a tree in Avlabari district, Tbilisi earlier today.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has reported that 12 people have died and three others have been badly injured in a road accident close to the village of Biso, Dusheti municipality. An investigation into the accident has been launched.
Over 200 people including tourists who were stuck in Georgia's mountainous region of Tusheti for several days have been evacuated. The rescue operation has been underway since yesterday to bring everyone to Telavi, a nearby town in the eastern Kakheti region, after the heavy rain damaged the road leading to Tusheti.
A Georgian border police helicopter on a rescue operation in the winter resort town of Gudauri in the north of the country lost control and crashed in a ravine on Friday, th Georgian Interior Ministry said.
Eight people have been confirmed to have been onboard the border police helicopter that crashed in the winter resort town of Gudauri in the north of Georgia on Friday, the Georgian Interior Ministry has said.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday expressed “deep sorrow” over the deaths of the crew, rescuers and first aid responders onboard the border police helicopter that crashed in the winter resort town of Gudauri in the north on Friday, and declared July 30 a day of mourning across the country.