All 28 people aboard were killed when an airliner was hit by a missile as it approached Sukhumi, where Georgian troops are besieged by Abkhazian separatists.
They have said that they have suspended hostilities, ostensibly to assist in the government's efforts to hold Sukhumi.
Three top Georgian leaders in Sukhumi trying to stabilize the situation, Grzeledze said.
Special flights and ships continued evacuating the thousands of tourists stranded in Sukhumi, the Red Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda reported today.
The fall of the resort town of Sukhumi at the end of September ended the Georgian military presence in the province of Abkhazia, which has been agitating for independence for two years and has now declared itself an independent state.
The Sukhumi official said 1,000 Georgians attacked about 5,000-8,000 demonstrators in the city's main square.
Victorious Abkhazian rebels on a shooting spree in Sukhumi yesterday. Separatists routed Georgian soldiers from the last corner of their rebel territory yesterday, advancing nearly 90km in a day.
Zarya Vostoka, a Georgian newspaper, said 5,000 people were armed in the Sukhumi area on Sunday night and there were exchanges of gunfire.
Soviet news reports said Interior Ministry troops and police were confiscating weapons from rioters, but Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist Youth League newspaper, reported today that Sukhumi police had to return some firearms to fear-stricken residents.
Mass transit in Sukhumi, 880 miles south of Moscow, paralyzed since the strife began, was partially restored, Pravda said.
Tass said there were no riots Monday, but the official in Sukhumi gave a different picture.
The airport was bombed on Tuesday and a radar ship was reported damaged by shells in Sukhumi harbour early yesterday morning. The refugees wait in crowds around the runway, carrying a few personal possessions.
Ardzinba, the national legislator from Sukhumi, said the riots started Saturday with the beating of an Abkhazian.
Georgian activists say there were clashes between Georgians and Abkhazians last weekend in the resort city of Sukhumi.