YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Rescue Service received a distress call from the Vayots Dzor Region, on Sunday at 7:17pm, informing that three people had climbed and subsequently gotten lost nearby the ancient Smbataberd Fortress, and that rescuers were needed.   

A rescue squad was dispatched to the scene, the Rescue Service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. 

An at 10:15pm, the rescuers safely brought down, from the valley in the vicinity of Yeghegis village, capital city Yerevan residents Hayk Ghazaryan, 15, Arman Martirosyan, 16, and Artur Mkrtchyan, 17.