President Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev took the resignation of the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Nurlan Ermekbaeva after PE in the warehouse of ammunition in the Zhambyl region, the victims of which were 15 people. This is about it in Facebook said the spokesman for the head of state Beric Wali.
“President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, examined the report of the Minister of Defense of Nurlan Ermekbaeva with a request for resignation, accepted it,” Walled.
On August 26, a series of explosions occurred in the military unit in the Zhambyl region, after which the ammunition began to take into the air. As a result, 700 inhabitants of nearby villages were evacuated, about 90 people were injured, 15 people died.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan, the reason for what happened was the fire in stock where mainly engineering shells were stored. At the same time, the leadership of the country eliminated the version of the deliberate arson or sabotage. After the incident, the Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan Nurlan Ermekbayev filed a resignation.
Then the head of the defense department said he took for himself a decision in the first minutes after reports of explosions, but at first he intends to do everything possible to eliminate the effects of explosions.