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Earlier, after negotiations with the police, the attacker released most of the hostages.
The media published videos showing a man armed with a machine gun, wearing a military uniform and a knit mask, leaving the building in the guise of three handcuffed hostages. The attacker possibly had a grenade in one hand.
Avto Galdava, the regional police chief of Megrelia-Upper Svaneti, is reportedly among the remaining hostages of the hostages. He was involved in negotiations with the kidnapper and is believed to have offered to be a hostage in exchange for freeing other people.
🇬🇪 #GEORGIA – [#BREAKING]A heavily armed man takes hostage customers and employees at a bank in the city of Zugdidipic.twitter.com/m3aDavBm9M
– ISCResearch (@ISCResearch) October 21, 2020
Previously, TV Rustavi 2 reported that the attacker was possibly heading to the helicopter.
Media reports suggest that law enforcement officers may have handed over the 500,000 they demanded from the attacker in exchange for freeing the hostages. USD (421.5 thousand euros).
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