Shooting in Nardaran kills 4 - UPDATED

27 January
20:00

Republic Prosecutor’s Office issued information on happenings in Nardaran on January 25

According to the information given to APA by the press service of Prosecutor’s office, while returning home on January 25 at 16.00, authorized operation agents of Sabunchu Police Department - captain Rovshan Rahimov born in 1978, Lieutenant Ilgar Agayev born in 1970 and police of the abovementioned department Teymur Yusifli came across Nardaran residents - Hasan Azimov, Ilham Guliyev, Hanifa Guliyev and another unidentified person. I.Agayev stopped the car and presented himself to them as police.

H.Guliyev in his reply said that, Nardaran residents banned the entrance of police to Nardaran. He insulted police in bad language. Controversy happened among them as a result, other residents intefering the quarrel and wanted the police to be punished, and they wanted to use guns against them because of their coming to Nardaran.

Supporting H.Guliyev, residents- Ramiz Hasanov, Ilham Guliyev, Hasan Azimov and other unidentified persons fired at police by the pistols marked "TT", "Makarov" and "Nagan" and sub-machine guns.

T.Yusifli opened the door of the car they came by, for the purpose of helping his colleagues in order to remove them from the site. But I.Guliyev kicked him and dropped from the car, H.Azimov aimed the pistol at the head of him and wanted to open fire, then somebody cried "They attack ours".

Police I.Agayev first fired into air and then at the attacking people by the pistol marked "Makarov", when seeing they had killed his colleague R.Rahimov. As a result, he could render harmless R.Hasanov, who was sentenced many times before, was killed by residents. H.Guliyev who was sentenced before born in 1982 and H.Azimov born in 1975 were wounded. Criminal proceedings have been initiated on the fact, under articles 120.2.1, 120.2.3, 120.2.4, 120.2.7 (manslaughter) and 228.2.1 (possessing keeping and carrying guns illegally) of Criminal Code.

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January 27
15:30

Today at 2 p.m. the local residents of the Nardaran settlement near Baku held an unauthorised action. The action’s participants numbering 200 people demanded to free some settlement residents, arrested in regard to the skirmish in the settlement on 25 January 2006, Trend reports.

The settlement’s residents involved in the action reported, the wounded and hospitalized Nardaran residents Hasan Azimov and Ilham Guliyev are innocent. These persons passed by occasionally during the incident and got injuries at the result of the firings by the police officers.

The action’s participants demanded also to lift the decision to search and arrest Ganifa Guliyev, who is wanted by the police. The protesters took a decision, in case their demands are not met, they will hold another action on the following Friday next week at 2 p.m.

The action lasted about 40 minutes.

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15:30

Tomorrow Nardaran residents will organize a meeting in central Imam Hussein square to protest to the murder of village resident Ramiz Hasanov in the armed conflict between the police and the villagers yesterday.

"We shall take revenge and punish the perpetrators", they stated. As APA reports, the residents said that the protest action would start at about 13.00.

Deputy Chief of Main Police Department of Baku Yashar Aliyev has told APA that the residents of Nardaran haven't applied for the meeting and any illegal actions will be supressed.

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The chief of the Baku Main Police Board Maharram Aliyev said that the accident is of criminal character and it is not related to the previous events happened in Nardaran, ANS informs.

The chief noted that all ways of the village are currently being controlled by police. Because it is has already got dark, operational measures will be continued tomorrow. It should be noted that the policemen of the 14th police station of the Sabunchu District Police Department, captain Rovshan Rahimov and lieutenant Ilgar Aghayev were assassinated in the territory of Nardaran.

According to the information, the associates of 14th Police Station of Sabunchu District, captain Rovshan Rahimov, lieutenant Ilgar Agayev were murdered in Nardaran while they were fulfilling their official service.

The car of the policemen who were returning from scene in Bilgah settlement were detained by armed Nardaran residents Ramiz Hasanov, who was sentenced before for deliberate murder case, and Hasan Azimov and Ilham Guliyev previously sentenced and others. R.Rahimov was killed having been wounded in his head and Ilgar Agayev was seriously wounded.

Resisting the attackers Ilgar Aghayev shot Ramiz Hasanov dead and wounded Hasan Azimov and Ilham Guliyev. Ilgar Aghayev was killed as well.

The officials of law enforcement bodies of the country visited the scene. Criminal case on the event was launched under the articles 120.2.3, 120.2.7 (deliberate murder) and 228 (illegal carrying, keeping fire arms) of Criminal Code by the Baku Prosecutor’s Office.