An explosive device went off on a railway section in the Zugdidi district, western Georgia, when a passenger train was about to pass the site where the explosive was planted about three kilometers away from the Abkhaz administrative border, the Georgian television stations reported.

No casualties were reported as a result of the explosion; windows of an electric locomotive were shattered and some parts of its engine damaged, a local railway official said. The railway itself was not either damaged seriously and the rail traffic was restored shortly after the incident, according to the official.