INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
occurrence, but no deaths have ever been reported along the boundary line."A Georgian citizen died as a result of shooting by the Russian
occupying forces near the village of Kirbali, Gori municipality," Georgia's state security service said in a statement released late
during the 2008 war, confirmed that "an incident occurred at the South Ossetian Administrative Boundary Line, resulting in the tragic loss
of a Georgian citizen's life."The mission said in a statement that it condemned "in the strongest terms the use of force in any form," and
expressed "concern over the deadly shooting incident."Local residents told the Pirveli TV station that the victim was a 58-year-old man who
was shot at by Russian soldiers when he, along with several other villagers, went to pray in a church that Russian soldiers had denied
Georgians access to earlier this year.Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said she was "profoundly outraged by the Russian occupying
forces' fatal shooting of a Georgian citizen during an unlawful arrest." EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday condemned the
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday: "I do not have any information about that."Russia invaded Georgia in August 2008
after Tbilisi launched a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetian militia who were shelling Georgian villages.Moscow at the
time bombed targets across the South Caucasus nation and occupied swathes of the country's territory during the hostilities, which saw
