People protest with a sign saying 'Stop Russian agression' and demand Russia stop its incursion into Georgian territory, outside the Russian embassy in Vilnius. -- PHOTO: AFP
TBILISI (Georgia) - LOUD explosions rocked Georgia?s capital early on Sunday, and a senior official said Russia had bombed a military airfield near Tbilisi's international airport.
'Three bombs were dropped on a military airfield belonging to Tbilaviastroi plant. There were no casualties,' Mr Shota Utiashvili, the head of the Georgian Interior Ministry's information department, told Reuters.
The plant has been producing Sukhoi Su-25 ground fighters since Soviet days.
He corrected his earlier information that Tbilisi's international airport had been the actual target.
Reuters correspondents working in Tbilisi heard the three loud bangs shortly after 0530 (9.30am).
