Condition of Shatili Road Survivors Has Improved

Lali Turdzeladze, Director of the First University Clinic of Tbilisi State Medical University, today announced that the patients injured in the accident on Shatili Road are feeling "considerably better."

“The patients are conscious and there are no complications. Their lives are not in danger at this stage”, Turdzeladze said.

“One of the three injured patients no longer needs medical support for breathing”, she added.

17 people died and 3 were seriously injured as a result of the tragic accident that took place near Biso in the Dusheti Municipality. A passenger minibus fell over a rocky slope, from a height of approximately 80 meters. 

In honor of the memory of those killed in the accident on Shatili Road, August 25 was declared a day of mourning in Georgia by a government decree.