Friday, December 5, 2025

Gas explosion claims the lives of mother and 9 month old son in Tbilisi

TBILISI, DFWatch–A 30 year old woman and her 9 months old son died in an explosion in an apartment block in Tbilisi Thursday morning, the emergency management service reports. The explosion occurred at around 11am in the eastern Ponichala district and was reportedly caused by a gas leak. Several other people were also injured, including … Read more

Suspect arrested for fatal stabbing in Tbilisi suburb

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Zarangul Akhmedova, mother of the murder victim. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia arrested a person Thursday accused of murdering 22 year old Pikrat Akhmedov on December 28 in Ponichala, a predominantly Azeri suburb of Tbilisi.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs informed said police from Isani-Samgori

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Neighbours Struggle to Deal with Religious Tension in Tbilisi’s Muslim Settlement

Friday prayer in Shia mosque (DFWatch)
Friday prayer in Shia mosque (DFWatch)

Soghanlughi, DFWatch – Global Shia–Sunni conflict found its way into a small Azerbaijani community on the outskirts of Tbilisi.What started as a local tension in the predominantly Muslim settlement of Soghanlughi (Soğanlıq in Azerbaijani), which is a part of Ponichala district in the southeast of Tbilisi, escalated into a conflict informed by events in the Middle East, proving increasingly divisive for the community.

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