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Death Toll In Last Week's Landslide In Georgia Rises To 21

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Four Hours In The Mud: Georgian Girl Rescued From Deadly Landslide
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Four Hours In The Mud: Georgian Girl Rescued From Deadly Landslide

Georgian officials say rescue teams have found two more bodies at the site of last week's landslide in the resort town of Shovi, which brought the confirmed death toll to 21. The chief of the Interior Ministry's Emergency Service, Temur Mghebrishvili, told reporters on August 9 that rescue teams continue searching for 12 other missing people. A day earlier, Mghebrishvili said one of the persons considered missing after the August 3 landslide, Zurab Bibileishvili, was located alive in Tbilisi, the capital. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Georgian Service, click here.

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