Twelve individuals were discovered dead at a ski resort in Georgia, a former Soviet nation, according to police.
According to a statement released by local police on Saturday, the dead of 11 Indian nationals and one Georgian were found on the second story above an Indian restaurant in Gudauri, the biggest ski resort in the nation.
The statement claims that all 12 of the deceased were employed at the same building.
The Indian Embassy in Tbilisi declared that it was striving to return the bodies of the 11 Indian nationals and was dedicated to offering the grieving families every support available.
Police claimed that preliminary examinations showed no evidence of violence on the remains and that a power generator had been set up inside, close to the beds, and activated during Friday’s power outage.
According to Article 116 of the nation’s penal code, which denotes negligent manslaughter, police have opened an investigation into the occurrence.
High in the Caucasus Mountains, close to the Russian border, Gudauri is gaining popularity among travelers as a less costly option to Europe’s major Alps resorts. Over 300,000 foreign tourists visited the Gudauri resort in 2023, according to a local consulting group.
The parking lot of the resort is situated 2,195 meters (7,200 ft) above the summits of numerous Alps peaks. Gudauri boasts a height of 10,750 feet (3,277 meters) and 56 kilometers (35 miles) of skiable terrain.
About 120 kilometers (75 miles) separate the resort from the city, Tbilisi, which has been engulfed in protests for weeks after the increasingly dictatorial administration decided to put a stop to EU membership negotiations. The police responded to the protesters with brutality.
Tensions between the Kremlin-friendly administration and the pro-West opposition increased on Saturday when Georgian lawmakers elected far-right former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili as the nation’s next president.
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