MOSCOW. Oct 27 (Interfax) - The government of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region has said Georgian police stopped a South Ossetian bus on Friday and put its passengers to humiliating treatment. "A Tsinagar-Tskhinvali bus was stopped on the Ergneti bridge on Friday.

Two people were killed in a shoot-out in Russia's southern republic of North Ossetia on 19 October, the independent Ingushetiya.ru website reported.

By Oliver Bullough VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (Reuters) - Watching the evening promenade of teen-agers down Vladikavkaz's shady central boulevard, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in a small Mediterranean town.