Today at 12:04 the Shirak Regional Crisis Management Center received an alarm according to which a road accident had taken place in the city of Gyumir and that there were victims.

A firefighting-rescue squad of the Regional Rescue Department of the Rescue Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia left for the scene of the incident and found out that the drivers of an Open Zafira and Freightliner truck had collided near a gas station.

Before the rescuers arrived, the driver and passengers of the Opel Zafira had been removed from the car by citizens and transported to the local medical center where doctors said the driver was in satisfactory condition, but the passengers were in extremely critical condition.