The Georgian Interior Ministry said on Friday morning that it had detained “an individual who crossed administrative border line from the Russian occupied territory of Abkhazia and smuggled explosive materials to Zugdidi”, a town in western Georgia close to the breakaway Abkhazia.

The ministry said in a brief statement, that the explosive material was defused by sappers.

An area outside a local prosecutor’s office in Zugdidi was sealed off by the police on Friday morning; the Georgian media sources are reporting that probe outside the prosecutor’s office was related to an explosive device, which was found there.