Two Armenian citizens injured in an accident on August 20 in Tbilisi have been transferred to Armenia, Armenian Health Ministry press service reported. One of the injured is in critical condition, and his transfer was followed by an urgent surgical intervention.

The relatives of the injured decided to continue their treatment in Armenia, the source added.

As reported earlier, on August 20, the Ministry of Emergency Situations received a report from the Emergency Situations Management Agency of Georgia, informing that that a minivan and a car had crashed in Tbilisi, at 2:58am.

The car’s driver as well as eight Armenian citizens, including one child, were injured and hospitalized.  

Contact was established with the aforesaid Georgian agency, which informed that Arpine Mamyan, 32, and Ani Avanesyan, 32, were in satisfactory condition, whereas Aram Khachatryan, 37—in critical condition; Mane Khachatryan (born in 2011) was at a children’s hospital; Maria Hanyan (born in 1989) was unconscious; Andranik Ginosyan (born in 1995) was conscious but in critical condition; Lilit Shalvaryan, 20, had suffered fractures; and Anzhela Shalvaryan, 48, was hospitalized too.   And at 11:46am, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia informed the 911 emergency hotline that Armenian citizen Maria Panyan, 29, had lost her life.