{"id":271465,"date":"2016-03-04T16:43:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=271465"},"modified":"2016-03-04T16:43:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:43:37","slug":"gas-explosion-victims-still-seek-compensation-from-gazprom-hope-president-will-finally-hear-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/03\/04\/gas-explosion-victims-still-seek-compensation-from-gazprom-hope-president-will-finally-hear-them.html","title":{"rendered":"Gas Explosion Victims Still Seek Compensation from Gazprom, Hope President Will Finally Hear Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">An Armenian family, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/09\/24\/gas-explosion-victims-stage-sit-in-in-front-of-presidential-residence-demand-compensation.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">were caught in a gas explosion<\/span><\/a> in their home in Aintab town of Ararat province and now seek monetary compensation from Gazprom-Armenia for their losses, staged yet another sit-in protest Friday in front of the office of Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan in hopes that the president would finally give solution to their problem.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tArtak Petrosyan, the family member who suffered the most serious burns in the blast, told Epress.am that their case against Gazprom-Armenia has not gone further than first instance court since representatives of the company &ldquo;keep coming up with endless excuses to not show up to hearings.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;We, an 8-member family, have been renting a tiny apartment for over three years since Gazprom-Armenia refuses to compensate us for the explosion. I&#39;ve become disabled because of them and have already spent several millions on medical treatment alone. Gazprom-Armenia gave us 3 million drams once (about $ 4 000) &#39;on humanitarian grounds,&#39; but that&#39;s not a solution: we&#39;ve lost our home, our health. We demand that they fully compensate us for material and moral damages,&rdquo; Petrosyan said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe company, he added, had promised to pay compensation for damages if proven guilty, and various examinations have shown that the exploded pipeline had been built in the area illegally: &ldquo;But Gazprom-Armenia now lays the blame on the construction company, claiming that they did not do their job properly.&rdquo;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Video in Armenian:<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L1HL3NGGQ6U?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company, he added, had promised to pay compensation for damages if proven guilty, and various examinations have shown that the exploded pipeline had been built in the area illegally: \u201cBut Gazprom-Armenia&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[61982,14820,52765],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}