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    Emil Lazarian
  • 3 years ago
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Surmalu trade center director arrested in investigation into deadly blast

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 14:33,

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 22, ARMENPRESS. The director of the Surmalu trade center of Yerevan has been arrested in the ongoing criminal investigation into the August 14, 2022 deadly explosion at the trade center’s warehouse.

Surmalu director Irina Madatova has been taken into custody, the Office of the Prosecutor-General told ARMENPRESS.

4 people, including the trade center’s deputy director are facing criminal charges in the investigation.

Authorities had earlier said that fire safety violations and illegal storage of pyrotechnics were the cause of the fire and subsequent explosion.

The August 14, 2022 explosion in Surmalu trade center killed 16 people and injured over 60 others.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS