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8 DEAD IN YEREVAN NIGHT RIOT
PanARMENIAN.Net
02.03.2008 13:36 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to the RA Public Health, 8 people were
killed in yesterday's night melee in Yerevan.
33 policemen (11 with fragmentation wounds, 13 with bodily injuries,
8 poisoned with gas and 1 unconscious) were taken to hospital.
On March 1, some protesters, cutting off the crowd, set fire to 20
cars, destroyed trolleybuses and buses.
The House of Moscow, supermarkets and offices, smashed windows
of VivaCell head premises. Groups of drunken people assaulted law
enforcers.
The Police are after those privy to incitement of mass disorders.
The Police call for restraint and obedience to the emergency rule and
help the law enforcers to clear away the consequences of the disorders.
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.
PanARMENIAN.Net
02.03.2008 13:36 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to the RA Public Health, 8 people were
killed in yesterday's night melee in Yerevan.
33 policemen (11 with fragmentation wounds, 13 with bodily injuries,
8 poisoned with gas and 1 unconscious) were taken to hospital.
On March 1, some protesters, cutting off the crowd, set fire to 20
cars, destroyed trolleybuses and buses.
The House of Moscow, supermarkets and offices, smashed windows
of VivaCell head premises. Groups of drunken people assaulted law
enforcers.
The Police are after those privy to incitement of mass disorders.
The Police call for restraint and obedience to the emergency rule and
help the law enforcers to clear away the consequences of the disorders.
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.