Georgian police detained Burjanadze's fellow-fighters for accusation of the loss of two people

Two members of ex-Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burjanadze's "Democratic Movement - United Georgia" were detained by Georgian police for accusation of actions which resulted in the death of people. 

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" reported that the motorcade of the leaders of opposition when hastily leaving Svobodi (Freedom) square knocked down two people. Policeman Vladimir Maskhurashvili and ex-policeman, a fifty-four-year-old Nodar Tskhadadze perished. 

"The detained are suspected of running-down several people last night during an attempt of leaving the center of the city where the riot squad's operation of forcing the participants of the oppositional action out of Rustaveli Avenue", an official of law enforcement bodies of Tbilisi explained. 

"Ivan Chigvinadze, assistant of leader of "People's Assembly" Nino Burjanadze, and Zakhary Zurashvili, member of her party "Democratic Movement", were detained", a statement of the Ministry of Interior Affairs runs. According to the investigation, the detained persons were driving cars in Nino Burjanadze's motorcade which left Rustaveli avenue at a high speed several minutes before the beginning of dispersal of the manifestants. 

The police state that two jeeps driven by Chigvinadze and Zurashvili ran into a crowd of policemen and participants of the action. As a result of the collision two people died on-site and four more policemen got injured, one of them is in a very grave state, "Novosti-Georgia" reports. 

The opposition and the authorities accused each other of the people's death. President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has also accused "outsiders" of the accident.