New details have become known about the discovery of three dead bodies in an unused mine belonging to Meghradzor-Gold LLC in Kotayk Province of Armenia, shamshyan.com reported.

At around 12:40am on Wednesday, an emergency took place in the aforesaid province. Police received a call from the Hrazdan town hospital that they had admitted several persons with a diagnosis of "exogenous poisoning from mine gas."

The police found out that these persons are Meghradzor village residents 28-year-old Vahan Yepremyan, 30-year-old Sahak Sahakyan, 36-year-old Aghasi Ghazaryan, 34-year-old Gegham Khachatryan, 53-year-old Gevorg Yepremyan, and 42-year-old Vardan Sepoyan.

It turned out that these persons had suffered gas poisoning when they had tried to retrieve the dead bodies of their fellow villagers—34-year-old Bagrat Khachatryan, 29-year-old Hayk Safaryan, and 27-year-old Aram Gogolyan—from this unexploited mine.

The law enforcement officers, together with the rescuers, retrieved these dead persons from this mine.

The forensic doctor reported that no traces of violence were found on the bodies of the dead.

Those who were hospitalized work for the aforesaid company as miners.

Three men found dead in a non-operating gold mine in Armenia’s Kotayk