CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldova appointed a new interior minister on Monday following the resignation of his predecessor after a deadly shootout at the country’s main international airport.
A government spokesman said the new minister, Colonel Adrian Efros, had been working at the ministry prior to his appointment and was sworn in with two other new ministers at President Maia Sandu’s residence.
Efros, Science and Education Minister Dan Perciun and Infrastructure and Regional Development Minister Andrei Spinu all replaced ministers who quit on Friday without giving a reason.
The opposition had demanded the resignation of the previous interior minister, Ana Revenco, over the shooting incident at Chisinau airport.
After being denied entry to Moldova on June 30, a 43-year-old Tajik man shot dead two security officers and wounded a civilian at the airport. The Tajik man later died after being wounded during the shootout.
(Reporting by Alexander Tanas, Writing by Anna Pruchnicka, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
