YEREVAN. – The elderly woman, who on Thursday had set herself on fire at Republic Square of Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, is in critical but stable condition.
Karine Babayan, head of the Department of Burns at Yerevan Research Center of Radiation Medicine and Burns, told about the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.
“The burned surface in the 86-year-old woman is 15 percent; also, the respiratory tract is 10-percent burned; a total of 25-percent burned surface,” the specialist said. “[But] overall, there is no negative dynamics. It can be said her life is not at risk.”
As reported earlier, an elderly woman on Thursday attempted to commit suicide in downtown Yerevan.
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