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  • Sixteen Servicemen Wounded, One Dead In Clashes In Yerevan - Armenia

    SIXTEEN SERVICEMEN WOUNDED, ONE DEAD IN CLASHES IN YEREVAN - ARMENIAN HEALTH MINISTRY

    Interfax News Agency
    Russia & CIS
    March 2, 2008 Sunday
    Russia

    Over the last 24 hours hospitals in Yerevan have admitted 131 people
    injured in the mass riots that have engulfed the capital. Eight of
    them have died, press secretary for the Armenian Health Ministry
    Ruslana Gevorkian told Interfax on Sunday.

    "By 9:30 p.m. on Saturday we had received information about 42 injured,
    10 of them hospitalized. By 1 a.m. we had learnt about another 89
    injured, including 59 troops and interior security officers, as well
    as 31 civilians," Gevorkian said.

    "Eight of them have died, including a soldier," the spokeswoman said.

    "Sixteen of the 72 hospitalized soldiers had gun wounds, as well as
    18 of the 59 civilians," she also said.
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