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Apparent Gas Leak Kills Georgian Premier
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News: Iran |
| News Date | Thursday, February 3, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | TBILISI, Georgia - Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who helped lead the revolution that toppled the corruption-tainted regime of Eduard Shevardnadze, was killed early Thursday by an apparent natural gas leak, the ex-Soviet republic's interior minister said.
Zhvania, 41, was at a friend's apartment when the leak occurred, Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said in a live broadcast on Rustavi-2 television.
"It is an accident," Merabishvili said. "We can say that poisoning by gas took place."
Security guards broke through a window early Thursday when they heard no signs of life inside several hours after the prime minister arrived, Merabishvili said. Zhvania had entered the apartment at about midnight and the guards broke in between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m.
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