P182 182 YLE TEKSTI-TV 18.07. 2115:14 NEWS IN ENGLISH TUESDAY Ethnic unrest in Soviet Abkhazia Thousands of Georgians and Abkhazians have been shooting each other, taking hostages and halting transport for 3 days as civil strife exploded in a resort strip on the Black Sea. The Soviet Minister for internal affairs, Vadim Bakatin said on Monday that both Georkian and Abkhazian dem- onstrator1 had stolen wjapons from police stations and other state build- ings. In addition the protester1 have freed some 180 prisoners from Georkia. 16 deaths have been reported in the unrest which had been brewjng for months. Nationalists called on Tuesday for a curfew in Abkhazia. Tamil leader killed 183 INDEX 180