More than 4,000 works of art were destroyed in a gallery fire in Georgia's Abkhazia

Gallery fire destroys more than 4,000 artworks in Georgia's separatist region Abkhazia. Thousands of artworks destroyed at the breakaway republic’s National Art Gallery. More than four million artworks were destroyed in the fire in the gallery in the region.

Fire destroys thousands of works of art at the main gallery in Georgia's separatist region of Abkhazia. The blaze was reportedly exacerbated by the poor conditions in which the artwork was stored in the gallery. It was reported to have been exacerbated by poor conditions of the artworks' storage.