Police in Georgia have arrested a man suspected of throwing a grenade towards US President George Bush during a visit to the former Soviet republic in May.

Police at first raided a property in a suburb of the capital, Tbilisi, but the man escaped after a shootout in which one policeman was killed, police say.

The suspect was seized when police searched a nearby wood.

The grenade was thrown into a crowd as Mr Bush gave a speech in Tbilisi, but it did not explode.

It was found 30m (100ft) from the stage when Mr Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili had stood. Both men spoke from behind bullet-proof glass.

from the BBC

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