YEREVAN. – The health condition of famous actor and comedian Vardan Petrosyan, who was involved in a road accident on October 20, has taken a turn for the worse. 

Armenian capital city Yerevan’s Erebuni Medical Center Press Secretary Shushan Hunanyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am that Petrosyan’s family had called for the Center ambulance and the physicians are at the actor’s home.   

Separately, the Police news service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that there is a warrant on Vardan Petrosyan’s arrest. 

According to our information, he will be arrested on Wednesday.

To note, a major accident occurred on October 20 in Kotayk Region. A BMW and a VAZ 2121-model vehicle crashed at around 9:20pm on the Yeghvard-Yerevan motorway. As a result, seven people sustained injuries and were transferred to several hospitals. Among them was famous actor and comedian Vardan Petrosyan, whose liver and spleen had ruptured. His spleen was removed, his ruptured liver was stitched, and he has been discharged from hospital. As a result of the accident, however, cousins Edgar and Eduard Hakobyan—who were passengers in the VAZ 2121—had died. Tatev Hakobyan remains the sole accident victim who is still hospitalized.     

A criminal case is instituted on the incident.

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