3-YEAR-OLD CHILD DROWNS IN SILIKIAN DISTRICT’S CHANNEL
YEREVAN, AUGUST 2, NOYAN TAPAN. The Rescue Service of the RA Ministry
of Territorial Administration on July 31 was informed by Yerevan’s
Mashtots police department that at about 8:45 pm a child drowned in the
channel near the milk plant in Silikian district. The following day,
at about 0:40pm the rescuers found the body of 3 year-old Hovhannes
Garshuyan 10 km away from the site of the accident. Being left alone,
the child approached the channel and fell into it. H. Garshuyan lived
with his parents in the area of the car assembly point (currently
standing idle) of the fruit and vegetable industrial enterprise.