The Minister spoke on works carried out today: "About 1500 citizens are involved in the current works. I would like to express gratitude toward all of them. about 800 MIA employees are involved in the works, among them are rescuers, special tasks department, security police. they work in shift during the day. there is very little portion of works to be carried out manually, more work has to be conducted with the help of techniques. a discussion was held in the Crises Council and a decision was reached that works have to be implemented with the help of technique. Rescuers will be involved in the search activities and the citizens, so called volunteers will be withdrawn from the disaster affected zone." Vakhtang Gomelauri also highlighted the issue of citizen withdrawal from the disaster zone: "As soon as the alarm informing us on landslide reaches the Emergency Situations Management Center, even if it informs us on the very little mass of soil , 1 cubic meter which slides on the road, we take preventive measures and withdraw people from that zone. We don't have right to risk and we might not risk. In case there is any kind of danger from the source, Geologists work on it, as well as weather forecasters and they inform us on the existence of any danger say 10%, anyway we don't risk and withdraw people from the zone. Even now, at the moment I'm speaking, people are withdrawn from one of such places. When it rains, we automatically are warned and stop. MIA Minister also spoke on animal search activities conducted in Gori and Tserovani.: in Gori it was not confirmed. officers were deployed to the place, met the initiator. Also the rescuers were summoned to Tserovani, there was a doubt that a tiger was there. Helicopters and tens of special units were involved, the whole village was examined, including cellars and abandoned buildings. Nothing was found there. No trace was found, hunters and experts didn't confirm the existence of any wild animal. They assume it was a large dog, not a tiger. Even now they are there working. As I am informed, they are concluding their work now.
