Today at 5:38 p.m. the National Center for Crisis Management of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia received an alarm according to which a citizen wanted to commit suicide by jumping off the 14th floor of a building in Yerevan, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports.

A firefighting-rescue squad of the Yerevan Rescue Department, an operative group of the National Center for Crisis Management and an on-duty psychologist of the Psychological Support Division left for the scene of the incident and found out that the 19-year-old citizen had tried to jump off the balcony of the apartment.

Rescuers prevented the suicide attempt, and the on-duty psychologist provided psychological support to the citizen who was transferred to the central police station.