A French national died Tuesday in Armenia, after being hit by a car in capital city Yerevan.

At around 3։05pm, a car hit a pedestrian woman, Varduhi Hakobyan, 73, who was crossing an intersection from a permitted section.

The driver tried to help the victim, and he called the police, shamshyan.com reported.

The law enforcement officers took the driver to a police station.

Those who were assembled at the scene were saying that the victim was also a French citizen, and she had come to the passport department of Armenia to get a passport because she was going to head for France in two days.