TBILISI (AFP) -- A Georgian policeman was seriously wounded in a shooting near the breakaway South Ossetia region, Georgia's Interior Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

The policeman was ""seriously wounded Saturday evening when the Georgian police post in the village of Koshki, Gori district, came under gunfire from South Ossetian territory controlled by Russian occupation forces,"" Interior Ministry spokesman, Zurab Gvenetadze said.
Tensions remain high both in South Ossetia and Georgia's other separatist region, Abkhazia, following the brief war Russia and Georgia fought last August, with reports of sporadic violence, shootings and explosions near both rebel regions.
Russian troops and tanks rolled into Georgia on August 8 to push back a Georgian offensive to retake South Ossetia, which broke from Georgian control after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia later withdrew back inside South Ossetia and in Abkhazia, both of which it simultaneously recognized as independent states.