Ninety times more victims

Data on the number of victims of explosions at military warehouses in the Turkmen city of Abadan, presented by the country's authorities and human rights activists, differ by more than ninety times. According to official information, 15 people were killed. The website of the human rights organization Chronicle of Turkmenistan claims that 1,382 people died. More than a third of the dead were children. Among them are newborns, since two missiles hit a maternity hospital. Another hit, as human rights activists report, caused the death of more than thirty children heading to computer literacy classes at the State District Power Plant.

According to human rights activists, many of the dead died in medical institutions. In addition, 127 private residential buildings in the village of Gunesh, located near the warehouses, were completely destroyed.

“Chronicles of Turkmenistan” also reports that a detachment of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations has been working at the scene of the tragedy for the second day. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was, according to human rights activists, against the arrival of Russian specialists, but was forced to agree due to a lack of his own.

For the first time, information about explosions at warehouses in Abadan appeared on July 10, while the explosions themselves occurred a week ago, on July 7. After the explosions, electricity, water and gas were cut off in the city. At first, the authorities tried to make it seem as if the explosions had occurred in a warehouse of firecrackers and firecrackers made in China.