DeFacto Agency, Armenia
July 10 2008

ELEMENT RAGED IN NORTH OF ARTSAKH

STEPANAKERT, 10.07.08. DE FACTO. Tartar River, flowing through
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Shahumian and Martakert regions and falling
into Sarsang Reservoir, burst its banks and paralyzed rural
communities’ life.

The river swept off all coastal kitchen-gardens, cornfields, and
potato and onion crops. In all, 6 hectares of cultivated land have
been damaged. Water also covered 18 hectares of Nor Getashen
community’s ploughed field, uprooted huge trees, fell electric poles,
as a result of which some rural communities have been deprived of
water. Here and there rough streams of Tartar destroyed the road
connecting regions’ villages with Martakert and Stepanakert. As a
result Shahumian region’s villages turned into islands.

After signal received on July 9 from regional administrations’ heads,
NKR governmental delegation headed by Armo Tsaturian, Vice Premier,
NKR Minister of Agriculture, left for the scene of incident to
familiarize itself with the situation, calculate damage and verify
actions to be undertaken to eliminate the element’s consequences.

Yesterday, during the whole day, the delegation accompanied by
journalists visited the suffered communities of Martakert and
Shahumian regions.

To note, in the second half of the day Base Metals Company carried out
works on the road’s temporary clearing with heavy equipment.

In the evening of July 9 the governmental delegation returned to the
capital city.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress