14 July 2009, 17:00
Georgia holds mourning day for children killed in road accident
In the context of the death of three teenagers on July 13 in a road accident, a mourning day is announced in Georgia. About twenty other children injured in the fall of a bus into abyss at the Nakerala mountain pass-over are still in hospital in Kutaisi.
A passenger bus with 25 teenagers, which transported them to the summer sporting-and-patriotic camp, went off the road and fell into 40-meters-deep abyss.
Earlier, it was reported about two lost children, but today another girl died. Doctors amputated her leg but failed to save her life because of numerous traumas. Two more teenagers were operated on, and their condition is stable.
As ordered by the country's President Mikhail Saakashvili, today national banners will be dipped on all official institutions, as reported by the IA "News-Georgia". All the funeral and treatment expenses of the accident victims will be covered by the state.
Today since morning, the rescuers resumed their works in the place of the accident, suspended yesterday because of a heavy rain; and they lifted the bus out of the gorge. Under preliminary information, the reason of the fall was in a landslide that happened on the pass-over, as reported by the "Rosbalt".
