Zviad Tkhelidze, Georgia

Georgian journalist Zviad Tkhelidze, a reporter with news program 2030 on GDS TV, died on May 28, 2016 while working on a documentary in the Khada Gorge in the mountainous province of Mtiuleti in eastern Georgia. Tkhelidze reportedly drowned while attempting to retrieve equipment that had fallen into a river.

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