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    POLICE OF ARMENIA CALLS FOR OBSERVING REQUIREMENTS OF STATE OF EMERGENCY

    Lragir
    16:16:12 - 02/03/2008

    The RA Police issued a statement which runs: "From midday March 1
    the crowd near the City Hall was becoming uncontrollable, and in the
    evening their actions turned into destruction and robbery.

    During mass disorders which lasted for several hours small and big
    bandit groups occasionally separating from a crowd of about 7 thousand
    set to fire over twenty private cars, as well as police cars, even
    ambulances, crashed buses and trolley-buses. The House of Moscow,
    the nearby shops and offices were ruined and robbed, the windows of
    the City Hall and the administrative office of Viva Cell were smashed.

    The drunken gangs attacked the police force and police officers. 33
    servicemen and officers of the RA Police went to hospital, including
    11 with shrapnel wounds, 13 with different traumas, 8 poisoned from
    gas. 7 police servicemen, including 4 with shrapnel wounds, received
    fast aid and are receiving further treatment at the military unit. The
    exact number of the hospitalized is being found out. According to
    the ministry of health, at the moment of the incident 8 got killed,
    and the circumstances of their death are being investigated by the
    Office of Prosecutor General of RA.

    Disorders continued, and only after the RA president signed a decree
    on declaring a state of emergency in the capital, under the pressure
    of the coordinated actions of the police, national security service
    and army the riots retreated, stopped mass disorders and left.

    Actions are taken to identify the organizers and participants, reveal
    and punish in accordance with the law.

    The RA Police appeals to the citizens for alertness and restraint, obey
    the requirements of the state of emergency, assist the law-enforcement
    agencies in elimination of consequences of mass disorders."

    02.03.2008
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