As a result of the bus accident that occurred in Armenia’s Shirak Region, 22 people—including a ten-year-old child—are transferred to the region’s several medical facilities. 

Shirak Regional Hall Health Department Chief Hovhannes Hovhannisyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am’s Shirak reporter that the injured are in average critical condition at present. “Now, they are being examined,” he said adding that, according to preliminary data, a child likewise was hospitalized. Also according to preliminary data, the bus driver is a citizen of Georgia.     

To note, a bus, which was en route to Istanbul from Yerevan, went off road and tipped over on the Gyumri city-Bavra city highway, nearby Ghazanchi village, on Saturday at around 2:10pm. One person died and ten others sustained injuries as a result.  

A firefighting brigade and a rescue squad had arrived on the scene of the accident.