On 2 September, at 08:23, the Ararat Regional Crisis Management Center received an alarm that an “accident” had taken place on the Mkhchyan-Byuravan highway. There are injured.
A fire brigade from the fire-rescue detachment of the regional rescue department of the Emergency Situations Ministry left for the scene.
It turned out that the “FAV” brand bus (driver: S.G., born in 1959) serving the Getazat-Yerevan route came out of the road and collided with a tree.
As a result of the accident, 16 victims were hospitalized in Artashat Medical Center, 14 in Yerevan Erebuni Medical Center, and 1 in Masis Medical Center.
The rescuers cut off the power of the bus, closed the gas cylinder valve, and then took out 2 blocked passengers from the bus.
