
Published on May 04, 2012
107 CHILDREN WERE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
- Ambulances continue to take children injured during the incident in the Republic Square to the Burn Center in Yerevan. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Mayor Taron Margaryan and other officials arrived at the square.Norair Davidyan, the director of the Burn Center, told our reporter he did not know the exact number of the injured people.The parent of one of the injured children said they burnt their kid and then continued to have fun.Today the balloons full of gas blazed during the rally of the Republicans on the Republic Square, which immediately burnt the synthetic vests with Republican logos worn by the children. Some children were taken to Nairi Medical Center where Serzh Sargsyan visited them.107 children were taken to different hospitals of Yerevan.

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