YEREVAN. – The dead body of a young man was found, early in the morning on Thursday, in Armenia’s Hrazdan River, under the Kievian Bridge in capital city Yerevan.   

The Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) had received a distress call at 8:56am informing that the dead body of an unidentified man was seen in the river and that rescuers were needed, the MES press service informed.  

The Crisis Management Center operative team and special rescue squad plus a firefighting squad were dispatched to the scene.  

The rescue workers removed the dead body of Gevorg Eloyan (born in 1990) from the river and handed it over to police.