YEREVAN. – The health condition of Anna Badalyan, 47, who had set herself and nine-year-old son on fire at their home by pouring gasoline on herself and the little boy at dawn on Monday, is very critical.

The director of the Research Center of Radiation Medicine and Burns, Norayr Davidyan, told about the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

He informed that 70 percent of the patient’s body has burned, and they are 4th-degree burns. Badalyan is hooked up to an artificial respiration apparatus, but the doctors say she has virtually no chance of pulling through. 

As for her son, Surb Grigor Lusavorich (Saint Gregory the Illuminator) Medical Center Intensive Care Unit Head Gagik Manukyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am that there is a positive change in his health condition, and the little boy has regained some consciousness.

As reported earlier, the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of Armenia received a report, on Monday at 5am, according to which a fire had broken out in an apartment in capital city Yerevan. The fire was put out at 5:27am, but the apartment, together with the furniture (28 square meters), was completely destroyed by the fire. The firefighters evacuated 47-year-old A. B. and 9-year-old F. N. from the apartment, but they were suffering from smoke inhalation, burns, and different-degree physical injuries. The injured were hospitalized, and criminal proceedings were launched into the incident.