A car bomb exploded outside a police station in ex-Soviet Georgia on Tuesday, killing three police and destroying the building in what officials called a "terrorist act". Only the outside walls remained of the burnt-out police headquarters in the town of Gori, some 80 km (50 miles) to the west of the capital Tbilisi. "As a result of today's terrorist act - and we can definitely say it was a terrorist act - three policemen died and 15 people were seriously injured," Interior Minister Ivane Merabishvili told reporters at the site.
It was not clear who was behind the attack, which happened just a few kilometres (miles) outside the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
"This tragedy is the work of people who do not want peace in Georgia," Defence Minister Irakly Okruashvili told Rustavi-2 television.