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Another officer arrested in probe of Armenian soldiers' death
Another arrest has been made as part of a criminal investigation into the tragic death of 15 Armenian servicemen in January, the Investigative Committee said on Saturday.
The soldiers were killed in a major fire that broke out in the barracks of an engineer and sapper company stationed in Azat, a village in Armenia’s Gegharkunik Province, early on 19 January. Three other troops were severely injured in the fire.
A first instance court in Yerevan ordered the arrest of Captain Yeghishe Hakobyan the head of the military unit’s engineering service, for two months, granting a motion filed by investigators on Friday night.
The authorities claim the fire was erupted after the captain poured gasoline into a woodstove in violation of fire safety rules. Hakobyan has been charged with negligence.
Earlier in January, a deputy commander of the military unit for logistics and communal maintenance was arrested as part of the probe into the incident.
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