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Azeri court jails five for fatal building collapse
07 May 2008 15:35:56 GMT
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BAKU, May 7 (Reuters) - Five employees of a construction firm, including the head engineer, were jailed on Wednesday by an Azeri court for violating safety procedures that led to a building collapsing and killing 25 people.

The nearly finished 14-storey building collapsed across a road in central Baku on Aug. 28 last year, killing the 25, most of whom were construction workers on the site.

The court sentenced the head engineer of the Mutafakkir construction firm, Asker Aliev, to nine years in prison, with three foremen and an architect receiving terms from four to seven years.

The court also confiscated Aliev's personal property along with that of Mutafakkir's recently deceased owner Ali Muradov to be sold at auction with the proceeds to benefit the victims' families.

The capital of Azerbaijan, an oil-producing ex-Soviet republic, has undergone a construction boom over the past few years, with high-rise buildings springing up across the city, on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. (Writing by Chris Baldwin; Editing by Alison Williams)


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