TBILISI, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - The son of Georgia's first president, Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, 29, made a suicide attempt Friday night.
Gamsakhurdia was taken to a Tbilisi hospital with a gunshot chest wound where he received emergency surgery and was then moved to an intensive care unit, Tbilisi City Hospital #9 officials said Saturday. Tsotne Gamsakhurdia is in serious condition with lung and heart's blood vessel damage.
The former president's family and relatives attributed the incident to Tsotne Gamsakhurdia's depression.
"Today, entire Georgia is in depression. Not surprisingly, Tsotne also was in a state of depression," Guram Sharadze, a close associate of Georgia's first president, said.
Zviad Gamsakhurdia was the first Georgian president in the post-Soviet era. In early January 1992, he was banished from the country following a series of armed clashes in downtown Tbilisi. He subsequently returned to West Georgia to organize a resistance movement, but was later found dead in a mountain village.
