ArmenPress
Dec 15 2004

PROSECUTORS CONCERNED OVER GROWING NUMBER OF GAS LEAK ACCIDENTS

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 15, ARMENPRESS: Armenia’s chief prosecutor’s
office has called in a statement today on the population to avoid
using makeshift stoves to warm their homes that work on natural gas
and urged it to observe all safety rules. The warning came after a
series of accidents from across the country reporting death or
poisoning from gas. The latest such accident occurred in Etchmiadzin
where a couple and three their little children were poisoned by a gas
leak out.
The incidents prompted the prosecutor’s office to make a probe and
reveal that virtually all accidents are due to people’s failure to
observe the most elementary safety rules and the carelessness of
authorized bodies which are supposed to supervise local gas networks’
safety.
The chief prosecutor’s office also urged the population to report
immediately about careless work of authorized bodies. It also
required that gas authorities carry out sweeping reforms within the
system and take measures to prevent such accidents in future.