Two stable, one in intensive care unit after deadly shooting in eastern Kakheti region

Mamuka Otiashvili, the Director of Geo Hospitals Sagarejo Multiprofile Medical Centre on Saturday said two individuals, out of three wounded, were receiving medical treatment in the surgical department in the hospital and were in stable condition, and one remained on a breathing apparatus in the intensive care unit, after the deadly shooting incident in the eastern Kakheti region early on Friday that left six dead and five injured.

Local media outlet Interpressnews cited Otiashvili saying that the third 24-year-old individual’s clinical parameters, who remained in the intensive care unit, were “relatively” stable and “under observation”. 

Revaz Omiadze, an ophthalmologist, said one of the injured patients, who had undergone eye surgery, was stable and would be discharged from the clinic today.

• Military veteran kills 5, injures 5 in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region

A retired military veteran killed five individuals, including a police officer, and injured another five in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region before committing suicide on Friday.

The 49-year-old offender, who had served in the country’s Defence Forces between 2006 and 2021, including in the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, shot the victims from balconies of a flat in the city of Sagarejo, before committing suicide as police in riot gear broke into the flat.