Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A politician has been shot dead and another wounded in a shooting inside the parliament of the [Republic of] Abkhazia. Abkhazia’s state news agency Apsnypress cited the health ministry as saying Vakhtang Golandzia had died of wounds sustained in a shooting at the parliament building on Thursday. … Apsnypress said the interior ministry had identified another lawmaker, Adgur Kharazia, as the suspect in the shooting, and that he had fled the scene. Its report did not give any indication as to a motive.” (12/19/24)