TEENAGER BLOWN UP BY MINE IN VICINITY OF KARABAKH VILLAGE OF NORASHEN
DeFacto Agency
March 12 2008
Armenia
YEREVAN, 12.03.08. DE FACTO. On March 9, in the vicinity of the village
of Norashen, a 16-year-old boy was blown up by a cassette ShOAB bomb,
as a result of which he died, Karabak-Open.com reports quoting The
HALO Trust Program Coordinator Gala Danilova.
"Our organization’s employees visited the scene of the incident and
fixed all details", Gala Danilova noted.
Thus, according to Mine Action Centre under The HALO Trust, the
incident took place March 9 in the vicinity of Norashen village, in
the settlement of Valoavan. The 16-year-old dweller of the Norashen
village Sasoun Zhamgarian was blown up by a ShOAB cassette bomb.
Three friends – Unan Kostanian (born in 1991), Avet Avetissian (born
in 1990) and Sasoun Zhamgarian (born in 1991) gathered bearing columns
on a neglected vineyard. Making a current blow with a hammer at the
column base, Sasoun, obviously, hit against ShOAB, which was in the
ground, and thus causing burst was injured heavily, and then taken
to hospital, where he died afterwards.
This is the first incident of injury current year. The analogous
incident took place in June 2006 in the village of Mehmana, Martakert
region. The head of the village Mikhail Atabekian, born in 1951,
while felling trees hit against a cassette ShOAB aircraft bomb,
as a result of which he died on the spot.
By 2007, 5 people suffered of mines and ammunition, 2 of them were
children. By early 2008 the total amount of the suffered reached
298 people.