TBILISI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - A Georgian police officer was shot dead and two others wounded on Sunday near the de facto border with breakaway Abkhazia, the Georgian Interior Ministry said.

The officer was the third to be killed in shooting incidents near Georgia's two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia since the Georgian army was driven out in a war with Russia last month.

Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said the officer was killed in the village of Khurcha. He blamed "Abkhaz separatists, who opened fire from the territory of Abkhazia." (Reporting by Margarita Antidze; writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Charles Dick)

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