The Mercedes C 220 passenger car, which was removed from underneath around 20-meter-high terrain at the landslide-affected region of Armenia’s Tavush Region and in which the bodies of Sorsumatyan brothers were found, was damaged to a great extent.

The rescue workers had removed, on Monday at 10:28 a.m., the Mercedes of Armen,38, and Mekhak,47, Sorsumatyan brothers, who were declared missing as a result of the landslide.

With the assistance of an MOD helicopter, limber, and a mobile railway crane, the rescuers have so far removed 25 vehicles from the landslide zone.

Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) operative headquarters, led by Minister Armen Yeritsyan, is operating on location.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, on October 2, a landslide occurred at Tavush Region’s Vanadzor-Bagratashen section—nearby Ayrum railway station’s bridge and close to Lchkadzor village—of M6 Interstate Highway. The 130-meter-long and 60-meter-deep terrain covered the road, rendering it completely impassable, and average height of terrain covering the road was 10-15 meters. Around 35 vehicles had remained under terrain.

Now these three people are declared missing: Norik Mirzoyan (Lchkadzor village resident, born in 1939), Arthur Hakobyan (Georgian citizen, born in 1992), and Gurgen Hakobyan (Georgian citizen, born in 1949).