Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili speaks during his meeting with the residents of the Rachisubani settlement, some 50 km (31 miles) south-west of the capital Tbilisi, Sunday, March 14, 2010.
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Hoax invasion report panics Georgia
Claimed Russians had invaded
Updated: Sunday, 14 Mar 2010, 6:35 PM MDT
Published : Sunday, 14 Mar 2010, 6:35 PM MDT
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Georgians have been panicked by a hoax television news program announcing the Russian army had invaded and killed President Mikhail Saakashvili.
Russia and Georgia fought a brief but bloody war in 2008, a conflict still fresh in the minds of Georgians who have since seen two de facto independent provinces erect firm borders.
The private television station Imedi — Georgia's No. 3 channel — showed the faux report Saturday night.
A few media outlets picked up on the story, and the channel ran a ticker during a subsequent entertainment show stating the report "did not correspond with reality." There was no explanation.
Tbilisi resident Gocha Khachiuri, 43, said he had to take heart pills after hearing the news.
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