10.04.2009 22:58 | Georgians shot her when she wanted to enter the shelter
 Several months ago there was an eventful proceeding in a life of 20-year-old Regina Puhaeva – she got married. The newly-weds lived in Dzau, where her husband came from. Near the beginning of August happy Regina came for a few days to see her parents, who lived in area Shanghai, in a hostel of agricultural college. She was at her parents` home when the surprise attack of Georgian army on South Ossetia began; she didn’t manage to leave for Dzau, where her husband had been. During the bombardments of Georgian artillery Regina together with her parents and the neighbours took cover in a basement of a hostel.
On August, 9 Georgian armoured units and infantry entered this urban district. As the eyewitness of the tragedy Maiya Tskhovrebova, the neigbour of Puhaev`s family says, Georgian soldiers were extremely cruel in their outrages.
“The Georgian tank stopped in front of our hostel, it fired at the building of a hostel and dwelling houses. After a while the group of Georgian soldiers entered a hostel. They shouted, called the roomers out of the shelter. They forced doors open and threw the grenades into the rooms, shot. We took cover in a basement and were trembling with fear. We thought these barbarians were just about to find us and inflict reprisals, but, fortunately, they went away soon, probably they had been in a hurry.
We were afraid, that Georgians would return there. Having sat in a basement till the evening we decided to move to safer place. There is a bomb shelter next to us and some of residents rushed there. We didn’t know that the Georgian soldiers had been already there. Regina was the outrunner, I followed her. When she was going down, the Georgians looked out of bunker and fired point-blank. She fell dead. It’s happened before my eyes. I turned back and warned the others about danger, having asked them in a whisper not to tell Regina`s mother Vera about the death of her daughter. We ran for Zheleznodorozhnaya St. and took cover in a small house”.
Having killed Regina, who was on her second month of pregnancy, Georgians wrapped her body in a blanket and hid it in the bushes. Mother was looking for her daughter all night long. Regina`s lifeless body was found when Russian soldiers ousted Georgian army from the suburbs of the capital of South Ossetia.
Black- robed Varya says in despair with a pain in her voice: “The loss of the daughter is excruciating pain. We don’t know how we are going to live with my husband. Sometimes I think to commit suicide”. Regina was their only child. Her body was consigned to the earth on August, 12 in Dzau settlement.
Translated by Tatiana Inozemtseva
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