One person has died and several others are injured after a major road accident Friday, in Kotayk Province of Armenia.

At 12:15pm, the 911 emergency hotline received a report that a car and a passenger van had crashed on the Yerevan-Ashtarak motorway, and there were injured.

According to shamshyan.com, four people had sustained injuries and were taken to a hospital in capital city Yerevan.

Sometime thereafter, a report was received from this medical center informing that one of the injured had died.

Those who assembled at the scene of the accident said the passenger van, which was a public transit vehicle, was parked when the car had collided with it.