Gunfire across line of control between Georgia and South Ossetia

Published Sunday November 30th, 2008

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TBILISI, Georgia - Georgian and separatist South Ossetian authorities are accusing each other of opening fire across the line of control in the ex-Soviet republic.

Nobody was hurt, but the accusations have added to tension following the August war that strengthened Russian and separatist control over Georgia's South Ossetia region.

The South Ossetian government says today that a village came under sporadic automatic-weapons fire from Georgian-controlled territory for several hours late Saturday.

It says South Ossetian forces did not return fire.

A Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman acknowledges that Georgian forces fired shots but says they were responding to gunfire from South Ossetian-controlled territory.

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