Businessman's son kidnapped for second time

An 11-year-old son of a Georgian businessman has been abducted for the second time this year in Kutaisi, a main city of the kidnap-plagued former Soviet republic.

State television reported that the boy, Georgiy Sardanadze, was seized yesterday after gunmen fired on a car that was carrying him along with the boy’s father and his wife, who were wounded in the shooting.