Abkhazia's President Alexander Ankvab's on Wednesday survived an assassination attempt unhurt, but two of his bodyguards have died, officials said. Ankvab's convoy came under attack on a road between Gudauta and Abkhazia's capital of Sukhumi when unidentified assailants detonated a land mine and then sprayed the vehicles with automatic gunfire and fired rocket-propelled grenades. Ankvab told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Sukhumi that two of his bodyguards had died of wounds and a third one had been wounded. "My car was badly damaged, but I'm feeling OK," Ankvab said. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack that comes as Abkhazia is set to hold parliamentary elections next month. Ankvab, who was elected in August, had survived several earlier assassination attempts, including the one in September that left him wounded.
