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    FIVE KILLED IN YEREVAN MELEE IDENTIFIED

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    02.03.2008 14:45 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Five of those killed in yesterday's melee have been
    identified, the RA prosecutor general's office reports. They are Gor
    Kloyan, Hamlet Tadevosyan, David Petrosyan, Zakar Hovhannisyan and
    Ruben Torosyan.

    The names of other five persons are not known yet.

    The RA Public Health Ministry reports 131 injured and 8 dead.

    Yesterday morning the police dispersed the opposition rally held
    in support of Armenia's first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan. In the
    afternoon the demonstrators took the streets toward the French Embassy
    basing near the Yerevan mayor's office. The protest action resulted
    in clashes with police.

    Numerous shops were looted.

    On March 1 evening President Robert Kocharian declared state of
    emergency for 20 days.
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