More than 200 people were injured in a night of clashes in the Georgian capital, and half of them are still in the hospital, a top health official said on Friday. More than 200 people were injured in a night of clashes in the Georgian capital, and half of them are still in the hospital, a top health official said on Friday. Two hundred and forty people were injured after riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas and unleashed water cannons on protesters outside Georgia’s parliament building. Giorgi Kordzakhiya, director of Tbilisi’s New Hospital, said two people lost eyes because of the rubber bullets. Mr Gavrilov on Friday blamed the clashes on “radical groups” who were trying to stage a “coup”.

Source: Irish Independent June 21, 2019 09:22 UTC