Contract serviceman Edgar Hovhannisyan, 34, who died in a car accident on the Yerevan-Meghri road on Wednesday, was married and had a 3-year-old son, his uncle’s family member living in Getap village told Armenian News-NEWS.am. Edgar was from Yeghegnadzor.

The driver, Valerik Hovhannisyan, is from Getap village, village head Gagik Aloyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am. During the accident a car appeared in front of them and Valerik tried to bypass it but crashed into a hillside embankment.

The health condition of the other injured is steady and their lives are not threatened.

Earlier Armenian News-NEWS.am had reported that a VAZ 2108, in which there were Armenian military servicemen, went off road at the Yerevan-Meghri Highway on Wednesday morning, and crashed into the hillside embankment and rolled over. The driver and the passengers – Yeghegnadzor city residents Tigran Mkhitaryan, 24, and Vahe Danielyan, 24 – were transferred to hospitals, but their lives are not at risk. And the driver, Valerik Hovhannisyan, 24, is in good condition, too.