The prisoner wounded at the Mental Health and Drug Addiction Prevention Center has died.

According to the family, his body was taken to the Samkharauli Forensic Bureau for examination.

The incident took place on the morning of 20 August at the Mental Health and Drug Addiction Prevention Center. According to the investigation, during a shift transfer, Guram Svanidze sneaked up behind an employee of the Special Penitentiary Service in charge of escorts, stole his firearm, and after attempting the first shot, fired a second time in the officers’ direction, and later – at his own head, inflicting significant damage.