accidents in Georgian military

One soldier dies as truck overturns in Georgia

By | October 22nd, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: |

(2030.) TBILISI, DFWatch–One soldier died as a military truck overturned on a highway in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region on Friday. The other 36 soldiers who were in the same vehicle received only lighter injures. 27 of them were first brought to a hospital in Dedoplistskaro, […]

Family suspicious about circumstances of soldier’s death

By | October 5th, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The family of a soldier who died from a gunshot wound a few days ago refuse to believe that it was a suicide. The deceased, Tamaz Tamarashvili (33) was a private in the Fifth Brigade of the Georgian armed forces. Monday, his family and relatives […]

Georgian soldier dies in apparent suicide

By | August 22nd, 2013|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: , |

Giorgi Mebonia. TBILISI, DFWatch–A recruit has died at a Georgian military air base near the capital Tbilisi. According to the ministry, the incident happened on Wednesday at a checkpoint while he was on duty. The body of the deceased, Giorgi Mebonia, has been taken to the National […]

One soldier dies in weapon accident at Vaziani, Georgia

By | July 27th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

 TBILISI, DFWatch–A soldier has died while examining a weapon at Vaziani military firing range on Thursday. According to the Defense Ministry, Major Otelo Gulgbiani was injured and was immediately brought to the hospital, but despite doctors’ efforts he died. Major died at Ingorokva […]

Soldier shot in the head in Georgia

By | July 13th, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Kahketi Information Center Friday morning reported that a 19 year old solider had died from a gunshot wound to the head. Later the same day, the Defense Ministry confirmed the death of Koba Makharashvili in a short statement, which said that […]

Georgian soldier dies in accident

By | October 14th, 2011|Categories: News|Tags: |

A 19 year old Georgian soldier has been killed in an what appears to be an accident at a base in Zugdidi, a town on the Black Sea coast near the border with Abkhazia. The accident took place at a base for the paramilitary forces of Georgia's Ministry of Internal Affairs. At the Interior Ministry's Samegrelo-Zemo [...]