YEREVAN. – The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia received a call, on Thursday at 12:39am.

Accordingly, a traffic accident had occurred on the Yerevan-Artashat motorway, there were affected, and rescuers were needed.

A fire and rescue squad was dispatched to the scene.

It was found out that a car—with Artak Babajanyan, 33, behind its steering wheel—had gone off road and overturned at a section, in Ararat Province, of the aforesaid motorway. 

The driver had died on the spot.

Prior to the fire and rescue workers’ arrival on the scene, however, passengers Arsen A., 16; Ruben A., 16; and Davit R., 15, were taken to the Masis town medical center, where the physicians said they are in moderate health condition.

The rescue workers brought Babajanyan’s dead body closer to the ambulance that was dispatched to the scene.