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Armenia Declares July 16 Day Of Mourning For Air Crash Victims

ARMENIA DECLARES JULY 16 DAY OF MOURNING FOR AIR CRASH VICTIMS

Interfax
July 15 2009
Russia

July 16 has been declared a day of mourning in Armenia by a decree
of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in relation to the crash of
the Tupolev Tu-154 airliner on a flight from Tehran to Yerevan,
the Armenian presidential press service told Interfax.

It was earlier reported that 168 people aboard, 15 of them crewmembers,
died in the crash in Iran. According to deputy head of the Armenian
Civil Aviation Department Arsen Pogosian, there were 35 Armenians
among the passengers, four of them citizens of Armenia. There were
also two Armenian crewmembers.

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