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  • Five In Very Critical Condition Following Yerevan Building Collapse

    FIVE IN VERY CRITICAL CONDITION FOLLOWING YEREVAN BUILDING COLLAPSE - HEALTH MINISTRY

    news.am
    October 25, 2012 | 14:54

    YEREVAN. - A construction crew of eleven remained under the debris
    as a result of Thursday's collapse of a building in downtown of
    Armenia's capital city Yerevan, the Health Ministry informed Armenian
    News-NEWS.am.

    Nine of the injured were taken to hospital on ambulances. Five of them
    are in very critical condition while the remaining four are in average
    critical condition. But this information is only preliminary. Two
    other construction workers, who were removed from underneath the
    debris, received first at the construction site, and there was no
    need to hospitalize them, the Ministry informed.

    As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, a semi-constructed building
    collapsed on Thursday morning in Yerevan. The Ministry of Emergency
    Situations (MES) received a call at 1:10pm informing that firemen
    and rescuers were needed. Subsequently, the firemen and rescuers were
    dispatched to the scene, MES informed.

    And the identities of the nine injured are made public, and they
    are as follows: Kamo Kagramanov, 50, Arman, 40, Arman Grigoryan,
    25, Arsen Hayrapetyan, 30, Nahapet Badalyan, Volodya Matevosyan,
    Sirak Tovmasyan, Edik Sukiasyan, 30, and Robert Arakelyan, 53.

    Minister of Emergency Situations Armen Yeritsyan has arrived at the
    scene of the incident.

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