Georgia says Russian jets dropped unexploded bomb

TBILISI, Aug 7 (Reuters) The former Soviet republic of Georgia said today that two Russian fighter jets had overflown its territory and dropped a 700 kilo bomb but this had not exploded.

Shota Utiashvili, the head of Georgia's interior ministry's public relations department, told Reuters that the bomb was dropped yesterday on the village of Tsitelubani, about 65 km north-west of the Georgian capital Tbilisi.

''Two Russian fighter jets flew from Russia to the Georgian territory yesterday evening and dropped a 700 kilo bomb on the village of Tsitelubani. Fortunately it didn't explode. If it had exploded it would have been a disaster.'' Reuters PDS VP0755