A couple from Sumgait, 39-year-old Elchin Alimuradoglu and his
32-year-old wife Jala Salakhova morning committed self-immolation in
front of the Administration of the President.
In this way, they protested against the demolition of their homes,
despite the decision of the Sumgait Court to ban the demolition.
The spouses doused themselves with gasoline and set on fire in spite of
the strict guard in the area. Immediately after the incident, security
officers extinguished the flames, but the two people are seriously
burned and were taken to the burn center of Hospital No 5.
Location of the incident was cordoned off by police and journalists were not allowed there.
Turan was told at the Baku Ambulance Station that the woman has burns
of the torso and legs and the man has burns of the back, 2-3 degrees.
The state of both is characterized as serious.
The first time such an act of protest took place in the past year by a
veteran of the Karabakh war Zaur Hasanov, protesting against the
demolition of his commercial facility on the outskirts of Baku. As a
result of his injuries, he died in hospital a few days later. The
authorities paid his family 100,000 manats.
