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Lusine Hakobyan

Meeting with Pashinyan Disappoints Relatives of Soldiers Killed in Barracks Fire

Relatives of the  fifteen Armenian soldiers who died in a January 19 military barracks fire say they left a June 28 meeting with Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan disappointed because he claimed not to be aware of all the details of the deadly incident.

Gabriel Kirakosyan, whose son Hayk died in the fire, told reporters that Pashinyan, during a meeting with relatives on April 27, promised to look into the matter.

Following the blaze, Pashinyan announced the fire was ignited when an officer poured gasoline into a woodstove used for heating the barracks in the country’s Gegharkunik Province.

The fire is regarded as the deadliest non-combat incident in the history of independent Armenia’s armed forces. 

Defense Minister Suren Papikyan, a few hours after the fire, announced that several senior military officers had been sacked for violating fire safety rules.

Relatives complain that state investigators haven’t seriously explored other possible causes of the fire and seek to verify the official version claiming safety violations caused the deadly carbon monoxide posioning. 

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