CHAIRMAN OF ARMENIAN HOCKEY FEDERATION WITH FAMILY KILLED IN ACCIDENT IN WAY TO SEMI-ANNUAL CONGRESS IN TUNIS

ArmInfo
2009-09-16 12:22:00

ArmInfo. Delegates from the Ice Hockey Associations of Armenia and
Georgia died in a car accident on their way to the Semi-Annual Congress
in Tunis.

Karen Khachatryan (President), his wife Gayane Harutyunyan
and their son Levon Khachatryan from Armenia, and Denis Davidov
(Vice-President), Lasha Tsagareishvili (General Secretary) and his
wife Teo Berdzenishvili from Georgia drove in a jeep to Istanbul,
Turkey, to catch the flight to Tunis, Tunisia.

In the region of Erzincan in eastern Turkey, 300 km from the border
to Armenia and Georgia, the six persons were victims of a head-on
collision with a bus on Tuesday at 2:45am on the Erzurum-Erzincan
highway.

Levon Khachatryan was in the Armenian team. The International Ice
Hockey Federation expressed its sincere condolences to the families
of the deceased and to the national member associations of Armenia
and Georgia.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress