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Internal Affairs Ministry issues statement on Sulutepe incident

19 April 2012 10:34 (UTC +04:00)

APA reports quoting the website of the ministry that during removal of the illegal buildings in Sulutepe settlement of Baku on April 18 by the workers of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), 200-250 residents of the settlement beat and injured the employees of the company Fegan Yahya, Huseyn Azami, Yalchin Mammadov, Rashad gadimov, Ilham Shahverdiyev, Musa Abuzerov and Agshin Piriyev. Local residents Idrak Abbasov and Jamal Aliyev also injured. Abbasov and Aliyev were taken to the hospital and their condition is satisfactory.

Then the residents attempted to block the 13th km of Baku-Shamakhi highway. This attempt was prevented, 10 of them were brought to the 40th Police Department of Binagadi district Police Office and after drawing up protocol under Article â„–298 of the Code of Administrative Offences they were released.