The Investigation Committee continues to establish the circumstances of the unlawful actions during the riots. The authorities have received 124 statements and messages about violent actions of protesters against law enforcement officers, destruction, and damage to property: official vehicles, urban infrastructure.
Incidents
Each case of power abuse by law enforcement officers will be checked. This was reported today by the Prosecutor General's Office.
It was found that in the evening of August 9 a Gomel resident was detained by police officers for active participation in an unauthorized event.
Unfortunately, there were also incidents on the road. The Interior Ministry reports that within 3 days the employees of the internal affairs units were deliberately hit by cars 10 times.
Last night, Belarus saw a number of unauthorized mass events. In 25 settlements, more than a thousand people were detained.
For two days, the protesters have been organizing mass riots in Belarus. Police are suppressing all attempts of the provocateurs.
The police cracks down on all provocation attempts. The aggressively disposed rioters started arranging barricades on Pritytskogo Street on August 10.
The law enforcement officers investigated the events that took place last night in Minsk and some Belarusian cities. Riots took place after the closure of polling stations, despite the requests to show prudence and warnings of law enforcement officers.
A 38-year-old Belarusian felt bad in the water and died on the beach in Italy. It happened in the province of Savona in the west of the country.
Brest, Gomel and Grodno Regions are completely closed. There was a fierce fire in Gomel Region in village Bagrimovichi of Petrikovsky District, where 50 hectares of bushes were burning.
Belarusian tows found themselves covered by a sandstorm Monday. Videos are posted online by witnesses. A driver near Mosty encountered an unusual natural phenomenon.
20 forest fires and over 100 fires of bushes were extinguished yesterday in Belarus.The aircraft was involved in some cases.
Vitebsk authorities are investigating the reasons for the contamination of the Western Dvina. Lateral fencing was installed along the area of 150 sqm to localize the oil film.
The cases were made by the Investigative Committee of Belarus under the article Unauthorized access to computer information.
The Belarusians injured in road accidents in Pskov Region may soon be transported to hospitals at home, as soon as their health condition allows.
The alleged version of the cause of the crash in Kazakhstan is a technical malfunction and pilot error. Black boxes have already been found at the crash site.
It collapsed near Alma-Ata. 14 people died, 35 of them were injured, 22 of them are in extremely serious condition. There are 8 children among the victims.
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Belarus has confirmed the detention of two Belarusian citizens on suspicion of drug trafficking at the airport of Nepal.
The corresponding statement was made by the Belarusian MFA which is arranging formalities related to the death of 2 other Belarusian women.
The bodies of two Belarusian tourists who disappeared the day before in the mountains of Georgia were found. Rescuers found them during a search operation.
Doctors state that the condition of the diplomat is severe, noted our Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As we have already reported, the attack occurred in the evening in the Ankara region, where diplomatic missions of many countries are located when the diplomat returned home.
Easing in the legislation on certain types of narcotic crimes is planned to be considered in Parliament on June 13. The number of crimes has reduced in this area which allows for changing approaches to punishment.
The extradition procedure took place the night before at the National Airport "Minsk". A 21-year-old resident of Grodno was convicted in Belarus for drug trafficking (back in June 2015) and in May In 2016, a young man was detained under a similar article.
Early this morning a minibus with Gomel registration number crashed into a cargo crane on a highway from Odessa to Kiev. At the time of the accident there were 8 people in the cabin.