January 20 traffic will be limited

Baku/15.01.14/Turan : Due to the memorial ceremony to mark the 24th anniversary of 20 January tragedy traffic is to be restricted in the direction Alley of Martyrs .

So from 8:00 until the end of the funeral movement all vehicles will be stopped from crossing Mushvig Street and Avenue Javid, from crossing Mushviga Street and Avenue Matbuat, Mehdi Huseyn Street near the TV Theater, the intersection of streets Izzet Nabiyev and Abbasgulu Abbaszade (close to the administrative building of the Milli Mejlis) . Turan was reported in the Office of Baku State Traffic Police .

Traffic police urges drivers and the public as little as possible to use private transport in these directions and use public transport.

Meanwhile , JSC Azerbaijan Railways announced free transportation of passengers on January 20 by suburban trains .

And at noon on January 20 in a sign of mourning the trains will stop in commemoration of the victims and the locomotives will give their signals.

In the night from 19 to 20 January 1990 , the Soviet army carried out an operation of military intervention in Baku in order to suppress the national democratic movement in the country and save the communist regime in Azerbaijan.

During the massacre 132 people were killed, 612 people were injured, 841 people were arrested illegally, and residential and administrative buildings were harmed as well as the property of citizens . -06D-