Tbilisi - Abkhazia accused Georgia of launching early morning air raids yesterday in the area where a UN helicopter was shot down by unidentified ground forces a day earlier killing all on board.
Georgia's border guards said unidentified helicopters and planes had attacked villages in the Kodori Gorge between former Soviet Georgia and its breakaway Abkhazia region but denied its forces were involved. The helicopter, on a UN monitoring mission, was shot down on Monday, killing all nine people on board.
