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.