SEVAN. – A teenage drowned in Lake Sevan in Armenia’s Gegharkunik Region. Rescuers took out of the water the body of Astghadzor village resident 15-year-old Arabo Shahbayan at 4.45 p.m. on Wednesday, water rescue group head Samvel Mkrtchyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

As the agency informed earlier, an alarm received at 2.39 p.m. on the same day claimed that a boy got drowned in the lake and rescuers were required.

A body of another young man was found in Lake Sevan on August 12. The rescuers took out of the water the body of Aygestan Poghosyan, 29-year-old resident of Nor village.

Earlier the Emergency Situations Ministry said five fatal cases were registered in Armenia’s Lake Sevan over seven months. Fourteen people were rescued by lifeguards.