MINIBUS CARRYING SCHOOL LEAVERS FALLS FROM BRIDGE IN LORI MARZ

Noyan Tapan
Jun 22 2007

VANADZOR, JUNE 22, NOYAN TAPAN. A minibus (license plate 71 TT 021)
on its way along Alaverdi-Vanadzor motorway (near Kober station)
fell from the 6-meter bridge on railway lines. NT was informed from
the Rescue Service of the RA Ministry of Territorial Governance that
among 16 passengers of the bus were leavers of Aragats secondary
school and parents of some of them.

All passengers were taken to the hospital of Alaverdi. Six of them
left hospital after receiving first medical aid. Another eight will
be discharged from hospital in the coming days. According to doctors,
a boy received injuries of medium severity, while the condition of
a girl is serious.