Road Accident in Armenia

Georgian and French citizens were injured in a road accident in Armenia.

The 911 emergency hotline on Thursday received a call at 11:35am, according to which a road accident had occurred nearby Gagarin village in Gegharkunik Province whereby several vehicles had collided, injuries were received and rescuers were needed.

A fire and rescue squad was dispatched to the scene and found that two vans and a car had crashed on the Yerevan-Ijevan motorway. As a result, the passengers in one of these vans, Georgian citizens Marine Yegetashvili, Marine Ghazaryan and Zahal Kapanadze, and French citizen Lucie Bedoukh, were injured, and needed to be hospitalized.

Doctors said Kapanadze was in a severe condition, whereas the others in moderate condition. Yegetashvili and Ghazaryan were later discharged from hospital.

This information was conveyed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs representative at the Center for Crisis Management, and to the Emergency Management Agency of Georgia.

By Shawn Wayne