YEREVAN. – The 12-year-old boy, who was brought to a capital city Yerevan hospital with a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) several days ago from Ashtarak city of Armenia, has died; his condition was very critical. The said hospital informed this to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

According to preliminary data, during a football match in Ashtarak, this boy had left the pitch to retrieve the ball from a nearby area. Health Minister Arsen Torosyan had written about this in a Facebook post.

But the boy had fallen on a reinforced concrete structure and sustained a severe penetrating TBI.

He underwent a surgery at the aforementioned Yerevan hospital, but his life could not be saved.