Rescuers search for missing tourist in Rioni River in western Georgia
Police have reviewed video materials obtained from surveillance cameras, which show that the tourist was on the bank of the Rioni River on March 7. Photo: Siem Wigger/facebook.
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Georgian rescuers are searching for a missing tourist from the Netherlands in the Rioni River, near the country’s western city of Kutaisi.
Siem Wigger, 23, went missing on the evening of March 7 in Kutaisi.
Police have reviewed video materials obtained from surveillance cameras, which show that the tourist was on the bank of the Rioni River on March 7.
On March 8, Wigger’s sister, Sjeel Wigger, wrote on her Facebook that before disappearing her brother was seen in a Kutaisi restaurant drinking with his friend.
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