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Tbilisi - The Georgian Prosecutor's Office has ordered that the body of the country's former Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who died in 2005, be exhumed.

Prosecutor Revaz Nadoi, who oversees the investigation into Zhvania’s death, told reporters on Sept. 30 that the exhumation would be handled by foreign specialists.

The ex-prime minister’s family agreed to his exhumation, Nadoi said.