I am deeply shocked by the shooting of the former US President Trump, - the President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, writes on the social network.

According to the President, political violence is deplorable and should have no place in a democracy.

“Deeply shocked by the shooting of the former US President Trump.Political violence is deplorable and should have no place in a democracy. I wish President Trump and all those injured a speedy recovery and send my condolences to the family of the one fatally shot during this attack”, she tweeted.

Former US President Donald Trump was rushed off stage after gunshots erupted at a rally in Pennsylvania in an apparent assassination attempt. He was quickly swarmed by US Secret Service agents and dragged off stage to a waiting vehicle. The FBI have identified the dead gunman as Thomas Matthew Crooks, aged 20, from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.