"By the order of the head of state, on the base of recommendation of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Nurlan Yermekbayev, Minister of Defense, has been reprimanded for inadequate performance of duties and weakening of departmental control, which resulted in an explosion of ammunition in a military unit in Arys," reads the statement
As it was reported, Nurlan Yermekbayev was appointed as a Minister of Defense on August 7 2018.
The military unit in Arys, Turkestan region, caught fire on June 24 at 9.20.
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