Missing tourist from Netherlands found dead near Rioni River in western Georgia
Siem Wigger went missing on the evening of March 7 in Kutaisi. Photo: Siem Wigger/Facebook.
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The body of a 23-year-old tourist from the Netherlands who had been missing for 17 days in Georgia’s western city of Kutaisi has been found near the Rioni River on March 28.
The Emergency Management Service has been searching for Sem Wigger since March 10, with rescue teams deployed in search of the man along a 15-kilometer-long section of the Rioni River. Diving groups were also brought in to help in the search.
Siem Wigger went missing on the evening of March 7 in Kutaisi.
On March 8, Wigger’s sister, Sjeel Wigger, wrote on Facebook that before disappearing her brother was seen in a Kutaisi restaurant drinking with his friend.
Georgian rescuers are searching for a missing tourist from the Netherlands in the Rioni River, near the country’s western city of Kutaisi.
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Nine foreign tourists who went missing in different parts of Georgia have been found safe.
Law enforcers have found a Chinese citizen dead in a rented apartment in Tbilisi earlier today. Rustavi 2 reports that the deceased young man was an employer of the Embassy of China to Georgia and was living in the rented house with other Chinese citizens.
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Rescuers from Georgia's emergency services are looking for traces of Ilia Pilpani, a teenager missing since last week, in the highland Svaneti province in the north and on the Black Sea coastline in the west of the country.
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