Ministry of Emergency Situations
of the Republic of Armenia

On July 5, at 00:13 an emergency call was received that a car accident had occurred at the beginning of Aratashen village, Armavir Province: a truck and a car had collided, as a result of which the car had fallen into the nearby canal, gas leak had occurred, there was a casualty. The rescuers’ help was needed.

A fire brigade left for the scene.

It turned out that "ZIL-130 " with license plate 12 VO 485 and “VAZ-21010” with license plate 35 GT 061 had collided.

Before the rescuers arrived at the scene the driver of the car had been taken to the medical center of Vagharshapat. According to doctors the casualty was in satisfactory condition.

The rescuers disconnected the automotive batteries and closed the gas valves of the cars.