Georgia and separatists report heavy fighting

TBILISI-Georgia and South Ossetian separatists on Thursday reported a heavy battle involving artillery in the breakaway region and blamed each other for the fighting.A spokesman for the Georgian Interior Ministry, Shota Utiashvili, told Reuters separatists were trying to attack the Tbilisi-controlled village of Avnevi and had destroyed an armored personnel carrier (APC). Russia's Interfax news agency quoted separatist officials as saying Georgians were shelling a nearby village of Khetagurovo using machineguns, mortars and guns from APCs. There is no independent information about the situation.

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