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Apparent Gas Leak Kills Georgian Premier

TBILISI, (AP) -- Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania was killed early Thursday by an apparent gas leak while at a friend's house, the ex-Soviet republic's interior minister said.
Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said in a live broadcast on Rustavi-2 television that security guards broke through a window when they heard no sign of life inside the friend's home several hours after the prime minister arrived.
Zhvania had arrived at the home at about midnight Wednesday, and the guards entered the apartment between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m., he said.
The friend was also killed, Merabishvili said.
"It is an accident," Merabishvili said. "We can say that poisoning by gas took place."
A longtime politician born in 1963, Zhvania was part of the opposition to former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and played a role in protests that prompted led to Shevardnadze's ouster after against allegedly fraudulent elections in November 2003.
President Mikhail Saakashvili, who led the protests, named Zhvania prime minister following his landslide election in January 2004.

RBC.ru via PROMT translation

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The prime minister of Georgia Zurab Zhvanija
The prime minister of Georgia Zurab Zhvanija was lost. Minister of police and public safety Vano Merabishvili informed about it.
The body of the prime minister was revealed in an apartment of his friend. And his friend also is found by the victim.
According to the minister, the last night Z.Zhvanija has come on a visit to the friend - to the assistant to the governor of one of regions of Georgia. After a while protection of the prime minister has begun to worry, as it did not answer bells. At 4:30 on local time security guards have broken open a window and have found out Z.Zhvanija's bodies and his friend.
Under the preliminary version, there was an accident - the death has come as a result of a poisoning with gas.
We shall remind, Z.Zhvanija has been appointed by the prime minister in M.Saakashvili's government on February, 14 2004a. During board of the previous president of Georgia, Edward Shevardnadze, Zurab Zhvanija held a post of the speaker of the Georgian parliament.