YEREVAN. – There are three Armenians among those who lost their lives in Tuesday’s traffic accident in Georgia, MFA Press Secretary Tigran Balayan told Armenian News-NEWS.am, and added that these Armenians were citizens of Georgia.  

And they are: Naira Tumasyan, 30, Zinavor Fyodorov, 27, and Zima Fyodorova, 4. 

To note, the huge accident occurred on the Akhalkalaki-Batumi Highway. Crashing with a passenger car, an Opel passenger minibus was burned down, and, as a result, its driver and six passengers died and five others were hospitalized. . 

Four of the inured are in stable condition, whereas another is in very critical condition.  

It is apparent that the minibus was used for local public transport and the passengers were not tourists. Passengers from Javakhk use this route to go to Batumi.      

Javakhk—Georgian name: Javakheti—is an Armenian-populated part of Georgia’s southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti Province.