Approximately at 18:00pm the georgian side has fired from an automatic weapon the post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia near the georgian-populated village Avnevi in the area of Znaur region of the Republic of South Ossetia. The press-service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia informs about it.
The fire was conducted from the georgian peace-making post in Avnevi within half an hour. The ossetian side did not open reciprocal fire. According to the preliminary data there are no victims there. At present the group of monitoring, consisting of the representatives of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces and the Mission of OSCE, has driven over to the place of the event with the purpose of finding-out the reasons of the incident.
