Lawmaker shot dead in parliament of separatist Georgian region

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A lawmaker was shot dead and another wounded on Thursday in a shooting inside the parliament of the Russia-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, the territory’s de facto president said. “After receiving fatal wounds, the deputy Vakhtang Golandzia has died,” the president’s press service said in a statement, adding that another lawmaker, Kan Kvarchia, was hurt. Russian news agencies quoted local sources as saying that another deputy had shot the two men.

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