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Another military officer has been charged with negligence as part of a criminal investigation into the tragic death of 15 Armenian servicemen in January, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported on Friday.

The soldiers were killed in a major fire that broke out in the barracks of an engineer and sapper company stationed in Azat, a village in Armenia’s Gegharkunik Province, early on 19 January. Three other soldiers were severely injured in the fire which reportedly erupted after an officer poured gasoline into a woodstove in breach of fire safety rules.

The charged officer is the head of the military unit’s engineering service. Prosecutors claim he failed to fulfill his duties to ensure compliance with fire safety rules in the barracks.

Earlier in January, a deputy commander of the military unit for logistics and communal maintenance was arrested as part of the probe into the incident.