August 5, 2003 - 00:35 AMT
PERSONNEL OF HOSPITAL EXPLODED IN MOZDOK STOOD UP FOR THEIR CHIEF ARTUR ARAKELIAN
The personnel of the Mozdok military hospital where an act of terrorist has been recently committed consider the arrest of their chief, lieutenant colonel Artur Arakelian to be unjust. As reported by "Kommersant" Russian newspaper according to their words, he cannot suffer the consequences of the act of terrorism as he came to head the hospital only a month ago. The personnel of the hospital suppose the authorities "to have simply found a scapegoat in the story". To note, in the evening August 1 a "KamAZ" lorry loaded with explosives rammed the gate of the military hospital and set off in its territory as a result of what 50 people were killed and 82 wounded, the building being almost utterly ruined.