On July 18, at 11 am His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians will hold a service for TU-154 disaster victims in Mother See Holy Etchmiadzin.

Yesterday a plane of Caspian Airlines heading Tehran — Yerevan, flight 7908 with 168 people on board crashed at 11:33 am local time on the territory of Iran. All passengers and crew members were reported dead. As per the preliminary data, of 37 Armenian passengers – 5 were citizens of Armenia, at that 2 — aircraft mechanics.