Hrach Badalyan, Gagik Manukyan and Varuzhan Stepanyan - killed passengers of the bus travelling from Moscow to Armenia in the night from November 2 to 3 – were friends, Mnatsakan Vardanyan, Geghamavan community head of Armenia’s Gegharkunik province, told Armenian News – NEWS.am correspondent.  The aforementioned passengers were the latter’s fellow-villagers and went to Russia each year as migrant workers.

According to Vardanyan, Hrach Badalyan, 34, was married and his wife is expecting the second child.

“Gagik Manukyan was 54; he has a son and a daughter. All three were very close and used to leave together for working abroad,” he said.