The State Security Service of Georgia says it has thwarted a planned terrorist act on the Russia-Armenia gas pipeline, Gruzia Online reports.
According to the source, seven people have been detained on suspicion of plotting the blast, employee of the Poti Patrol Police Levan Mamporia among them.
The detainees are accused of being linked to a terrorist organization.
The suspects prepared to carry out an explosion of an open section of the gas pipeline near the Saguramo village, some 20 kilometers from Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, teh State Security Service said.