Georgian aggression claimed 133 S. Ossetian civilian casualties – Investigative Committee MOSCOW. Aug 20 (Interfax) - According to official data, 133 South Ossetian civilians became victims of the Georgian aggression, but many graves remain unaccounted for, the Russian Prosecutor's Office Investigative Committee said.
"We have registered 133 casualties, but there are many buried bodies that we cannot unearth," Boris Salmakov, deputy chief of the POIC office for the Southern Federal District, told journalists in Moscow on Wednesday.
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> Assuming the latter is the more accurate, in addition to
> the 44
> brought to the hospital there are probably:
> - people killed outside of Tskhinvali
> - people who were not brought to the hospital (adamant or
> not, the
> doctor can't be certain there weren't any)
> - people who have died of their injuries since this doctor
> was spoken to
>
> Agreed that these extra figures are unlikely to reach the
> 1500-2000
> mark but, certainly, they would push it up well over 44.
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