TELEPHONE CALL ON THE BOMB LAID IN THE BUILDING OF RA GOVERNMENT WAS
FALSE – DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

YEREVAN, June 23. /ARKA/. Telephone call on the bomb laid in the
building of RA Government was false, stated Colonel Vrej Gabrielyan,
the deputy Chief of the RA Department of Emergency Situations, ARKA
News Agency correspondent reports from the scene of developments. He
said that a call was received at 14.00 local time on the control panel
of the police about the bomb laid by the external wall of the RA
Government building. The RA Police, Department of Emergency Situations
and National security Service groups immediately drove out to the spot
of the incident and undertook active measures. “As a result of the
action taken, no trace of a bomb or other explosives was found, the
call was false”, said Gabrielyan. He noted that proceedings would
instituted in connection with the case and “the guilty will be
punished”.

The active measures were carried out without the evacuation of the
people from the RA Government building. The Head of the Government,
Andranik Margaryan did not leave his workplace for the time of the
alarm. Until now, the officials of the security agencies are at the
scene, ambulance and fire services are on duty. Note, this is the 4th
false call about a bomb. Previously, similar calls were received in
Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, State Pedagogical University,
French University of Armenia and one of Armenian schools. L.V. -0–