A spoof television report that President Mikheil Saakashvili had been assassinated in a new Russian invasion of Georgia led to mass panic and furious opposition protests yesterday.
The 30-minute programme claimed that Russian forces were advancing on the capital Tbilisi and had bombed its airport, and that opposition leaders had sided with the Kremlin.
Thousands panicked and a mass exodus began before it was announced that is was not real.
Why did the Georgians just not look out of their windows and check?
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