One person died, whereas nine others were injured in the tragic road accident that occurred early Thursday morning in Yeraskh village in Armenia’s Ararat Province, and two of the injured are in critical condition.

A representative from the Vedi town hospital told Armenian News-NEWS.am that around a 70-year-old man, who was injured in the accident, was brought to them, but he is in good condition. The person that died in the accident was his 41-year-old son, and he knows about it.

Eight others were transferred to the Ararat village hospital; three of them were women and five are men. There was also a child, who, fortunately, had no health problems and was not hospitalized.

Hospital director Arayik Sardaryan told Armenian News-NEWS.am that two of the injured that were brought to them are in very critical condition. One of them is the around 60-year-old Iranian truck driver himself, and he is hooked up to an artificial respiration apparatus. The other is a female passenger of a car that had become scrap metal. 

The other six injured being treated in the Ararat hospital are in moderate condition.

The injured said they were en route to capital city Yerevan, and they had stopped over at the Yeraskh village intersection to drink water, during which the cistern of the Iranian’s truck had come off, and as a result, the vehicle had overturned and hit several cars.

According to preliminary information, the truck had hit two automobiles carrying families.

The Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of Armenia received a report on Thursday at 8:25am.

Accordingly, a traffic accident had occurred, with an outbreak of fire, in Yeraskh village in the Ararat Province.

Three fire and rescue squads were dispatched to the scene.

A truck with Iranian license plates had collided with seven cars on the Yerevan-Meghri motorway, in Yeraskh village, reported Shamshyan.com.

As a result of the collision, several vehicles had burned and turned into a heap of ashes, and some others had become scrap metal.

One person had died, whereas nine others were taken to the hospitals in Ararat village and Vedi town.