ZAGREB, Dec 14 (Hina) - The government concluded on Thursday Defence Minister Jozo Rados was not responsible for a barracks incident in which 21 conscripts were injured, turning down his resignation. The government adopted a Defence
Ministry report and ordered further investigation into last month's tragedy at the St. Peter's barracks in Ogulin, in which 16 conscripts were lightly and five seriously injured in an explosion. Submitting a report on the incident compiled by his ministry and the main military headquarters, Defence Minister Rados said it had not yet been established precisely what kind of device set off the blast nor how the device happened to be in the barracks. It was established that a weaponry storehouse, Ostarije 1, storing unexploded mines, was not protected well since 1995, namely that no one protected it at all until the end of last year. We have to look for responsibility in two possible directions, f
ZAGREB, Dec 14 (Hina) - The government concluded on Thursday
Defence Minister Jozo Rados was not responsible for a barracks
incident in which 21 conscripts were injured, turning down his
resignation.
The government adopted a Defence Ministry report and ordered
further investigation into last month's tragedy at the St. Peter's
barracks in Ogulin, in which 16 conscripts were lightly and five
seriously injured in an explosion.
Submitting a report on the incident compiled by his ministry and the
main military headquarters, Defence Minister Rados said it had not
yet been established precisely what kind of device set off the blast
nor how the device happened to be in the barracks.
It was established that a weaponry storehouse, Ostarije 1, storing
unexploded mines, was not protected well since 1995, namely that no
one protected it at all until the end of last year.
We have to look for responsibility in two possible directions, for
what occurred at the barracks and for what was happening to Ostarije
1 in all these years, said Rados.
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