Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Nov 11 2012
Bus crashes in Northern Armenia
11 November 2012 – 12:04pm
As a result of a bus accident that occurred in Armenia’s Shirak
Region, 22 people (including a ten-year-old child) have been
transferred to the region’s several medical facilities.
Shirak Regional Health Department Chief Hovhannes Hovhannisyan told
News.am that the injured are in average critical condition at present.
`Now, they are being examined,’ he said, adding that, according to
preliminary data, a child had also been hospitalized. According to
preliminary data, the bus driver is a citizen of Georgia.
The bus, which was en route to Istanbul from Yerevan, went off road
and tipped over on the Gyumri-Bavra highway, near the village of
Ghazanchi, on Saturday at around 2:10pm. One person died and ten
others sustained injuries as a result.
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