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    RIOTS START IN UKRAINIAN CITY OF MARGANETS

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/
    30.06.2009 16:59 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Riots started after a fight in a cafe of Ukranian
    city of Marganets, at which a young police inspector was killed,
    representatives of the Armenian community of Dnepropetrovsk
    region state. Some of those who took part in the cafe incident were
    Armenians. According to community's lawyer Alla Arakelova, after the
    fight large-scale riots stared in city: houses have been burnt, more
    than 15 cars have been destroyed. "There are victims, women and elderly
    people are among them. Their relatives are now took off to other
    cities: Zaporozhye, Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk," she added. Police
    reports, that the situation in Marganets is controlled, and denies
    occurrence of incidents after the fight in the cafe. They insist that
    it was purely domestic incident. According to the first deputy head of
    internal affairs ministry administration of Ukraine in Dnepropetrovsk
    region Igor Shovikov, "it was a small conflict, which was localized
    in the short term." About two dozen participants of the fight from
    both sides have been detained. There is no information if a person
    who killed a young police officer is among them. Representatives of
    the Armenian community accuse police for inaction. According to them,
    police did not intervene in the conflict, and community activists are
    going to picket the Regional Prosecutor's office and the Regional
    Department of the Interior. 22 -year-old policeman died from stab
    wounds in the city of Manganets. He tried to stop a fight at the
    local cafe. Sergeant of the patrol-sentry service was not performing
    his duties, he was dressed as a civilian. Another four people were
    hospitalized with injuries, tsn.ua reports.
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