The Parliament honored the memory of the victims of the fatal explosion at Mari naval base “Evangelos Florakis” on July 11, 2011 with one minute silence during Thursday`s plenary session.
Acting President of today’s plenary AKEL MP Adamos Adamou and the legislative Body expressed once again their full solidarity with the relatives of the victims.
“We must not allow such errors to be repeated, and we must not let Cyprus to live similar tragedies”, said Adamou, adding that five years have elapsed since the morning of July 11, 2011 when Cyprus was shocked by the tragic news of the death of 13 persons following a powerful explosion in containers full of explosives which were kept at the naval base “Evangelos Florakis” in Mari.
He recalled that from the deadly explosion 13 Cypriots from the National Guard, the Fire Department and EMAK died on duty and dozens of others were wounded, while the shock wave of the explosion caused huge damage to the power plant at Vasiliko, with serious fallout on the economy.
Cypriot Parliament honours the memory of victims of the huge 2011 explosion at a naval base
