Families of the missing oil workers protest

In the morning on February 11 the families of the oil missing  after the tragedy at the offshore platform "Gunashli"   protested  in front of the Administration of the President.  Twenty five relatives and friends of some 20 missing oil workers complained  of ineffectiveness  of conducted searches. The protesters were  directed to  the SOCAR’s president Rovnag Abdullayev, but they were  received by the Vice-President Khalig Mammadov. This angered the relatives  of the mission oilmen , and they returned to the presidential administration.

"We hope only for the head of state, and  do not believe any others,"  said a  reporter Esmira Ahmadova,   a relative of one of the missing oil workers.

By 14:00 o'clock  the close relatives  waiting for an answer from the presidential administration, went to Mehriban Aliyeva , the head  of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.

On December 4   as a result of the storm  starteda  fire at  the "Guneshli". Of the 64 people, half were evacuated. Part of the remaining persons  were saved, but about 30 people with a lifeboat fell into the sea. Some time later, the bodies of 13 oilmen  were found, the rest are still missing,

On the same day  three oilmen in the field "Oil Rocks"also fell into the see.  Later, the  body  of one of them was  found.-05B-