January 19, 2004 - 23:07 AMT
TRAFFIC INSPECTOR CRUELLY BEATEN IN CENTER OF YEREVAN
Yesterday an officer of the Motor Inspection Department of Armenia is cruelly beaten in the center of Yerevan - in Mashtots Avenue. As reported by Arminfo agency, state inspectors stopped a VAZ 2106 car with state numbers 06LL800 for breaking the rule of the road at 8 p.m. Having come out of the car, the driver and the passenger attacked one of the officers and started beating him, while the other made a preventive shot with his personal gun. After that the hooligans escaped, leaving the car. The inspector is taken to hospital with serious body injuries. Criminal proceedings are instituted, the criminals are searched for.