Ruling party Chair offers condolences following deadly landslides in Adjara, Imereti regions
One survivor had been rescued, the body added, while search and rescue operations were still ongoing. Photo: Government Administration
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Irakli Garibashvili, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday offered his condolences after two people died in the western Adjara region and bodies of five individuals were recovered in the western municipality of Baghdati after a landslide and an avalanche hit the localities on Tuesday.
I express my deep sorrow for the tragedy in the Adjara and Imereti regions. Unfortunately, the disaster took the lives of many of our fellow citizens. I express my sincere condolences and sympathy to the family members and relatives of the deceased, [and] to our public as a whole”, Garibashvili said in a social media message.
The country’s Interior Ministry on Wednesday said abundant overnight rainfall in the Imereti region had caused the landslide, which covered four residential houses under a land mass in the village of Nergeeti.
One survivor had been rescued, the body added, while search and rescue operations were still ongoing.
The Delegation of the European Union to Georgia on Wednesday sent its condolences after two people died in the western Adjara region and bodies of four individuals were recovered in the western municipality of Baghdati after a landslide and an avalanche hit the localities on Tuesday.
Officials in the western municipality of Baghdati in the Imereti region on Wednesday met locals and promised support following damage caused to the locality on Tuesday by strong winds, heavy rainfall and landslides.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the candidate for the position of the Prime Minister of Georgia, on Tuesday sent his condolences after two people died in the Black Sea region of Adjara after a landslide and an avalanche hit the western locality since Monday.
The rescuers recovered the bodies of two more individuals in the western municipality of Baghdati in the Imereti region after a landslide that hit the village of Nergeeti on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry confirmed to the local media.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia on Thursday said rescuers had recovered all bodies of victims in the western municipality of Baghdati in the Imereti region after a landslide that hit the village of Nergeeti on Tuesday.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the newly appointed Prime Minister of Georgia, on Saturday arrived in the disaster zone in the western municipality of Baghdati, following a deadly landslide in the village of Nergeeti and pledged to take “all measures” to provide necessary accommodation and compensation to the victims.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Saturday got acquainted with the disaster clean-up operations in Pirveli Maisi village in Keda municipality of Adjara region, after a landslide killed two on Tuesday.