MOSCOW, Aug 9 (Reuters) - More than 30,000 refugees from Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia have fled the fighting there to Russia, Russian government chief of staff Sergei Sobyanin was quoted as saying on Saturday. "In the past 36 hours more than 30,000 people have crossed the border," Sobyanin said at a meeting chaired by President Dmitry Medvedev, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. "In reality we have a humanitarian catastrophe." (Writing by Oleg Shchedrov; Editing by Jon Boyle)
Georgian soldiers carry an injured woman in the town of Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in ...
