TBILISI, DFWatch–A gunman opened fire at a local office of Georgia’s ruling party Thursday night, wounding four people, two days before nationwide local elections that will gage the government’s hold on power.
The attack, which wounded a candidate for Georgian Dream,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Strong wind hit Tbilisi Monday evening, uprooting tens of trees and damaging houses and street signs.
Monday night at 10pm, the wind reached a speed of up to 32 meters per second in the capital. This qualifies as a hurricane,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Massive snowfall is causing problems in western Georgia, especially the two regions Samegrelo and Svaneti, where the snow cover in some places exceeds one meter.
An avalanche cut off an important road connecting Zugdidi and Mestia, the administrative centers
TBILISI, DFWatch–A man died in an avalanche in Svaneti, in northwestern Georgia on Wednesday.
The accident happened in Khaishi on the road between Jvari and Mestia. Rustavi 2 reported that the victim was a local minibus driver who had stopped his vehicle to look at the pileup
TBILISI, DFWatch–Several flights were delayed at Kutaisi International Airport on Saturday due to ice.
The airport informed that the flight to Thessaloniki, Greece was cancelled, while also flights to Warsaw, Poland and Budapest, Hungary were delayed for one day.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two young people were pulled out of the snow alive Monday evening after being caught by an avalanche in a mountainous part of Georgia’s Adjara region.
Locals helped the two survive the ordeal. They did not have life-threatening injuries but were taken to hospital.
TBILISI, DFWatch–There are road restrictions all over Georgia due to bad weather, the Roads Department warned Thursday.
Trailers and semi-trailers are prohibited from driving between the 1km and 50km mark on the S-8 Khashuri-Akhaltsikhe-Vale road,