More than 50 people questioned over Surmalu blast

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YEREVAN, AUGUST 17, ARMENPRESS. More than 50 people have been questioned by authorities in the Surmalu market explosion case, the Investigative Committee spokesperson Vardan Tadevosyan told ARMENPRESS.

Those questioned include victims and owners of shops in the venue. However, the owner of the trade center itself hasn’t been questioned so far.

“There is no defendant in the case [yet],” Tadevosyan said.

The criminal case is opened on Violation of Fire Safety Rules Causing Deaths and Violating of Safety Rules for Storing, Transporting, Using or Supplying Flammable or Incendiary Materials Causing Death.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS