ANOTHER FALSE BOMB ALERT IN YEREVAN
Dozens of teachers and other staff were briefly evacuated from a school building in central Yerevan on Thursday after what turned out to be a false bomb alert. An assistant to the school principal said she received a phone call from an unknown man in the morning shortly before a planned staff meeting that was due to discuss preparations for the start of a new academic year. “He said an explosive device was planted in the school and said we should evacuate all people,” she said. “When I asked who I am talking to, he hung up.” Security forces, joined by rescue workers and ambulances, arrived at the secondary school No. 26 and ordered its personnel to leave the building shortly after being informed about the call. They searched the building and found no explosives there. School officials said no students were inside the building on Thursday morning. The new academic year in Armenia starts on September 1. “This is the third such incident in the history of our schools,” said Onik Vatian, head of the Yerevan municipality’s education department. “I find it unacceptable.” The incident occurred less than two months after a similar phone call forced the evacuation of employees of several government ministries located in a single building. Police arrested on the same day an elderly man who allegedly made the false alert. He was said to have a history of mental illness.
- By Karine Kalantarian
GOVERNMENT APPROVES PENSION HIKE
By Irina Hovannisian
In a move certain to be linked with the approaching presidential election, the Armenian government approved on Thursday a 60 percent surge in modest pensions paid to hundreds of thousands of elderly citizens. ...ARMENIAN PHONE FEES ‘HIGHER THAN IN U.S.’
By Ruben MeloyanArmenians pay more for fixed-line phone services than residents of not only neighboring countries but the United States, according to new research presented in Yerevan on Thursday. A study conducted ...ANOTHER FALSE BOMB ALERT IN YEREVAN
By Karine KalantarianDozens of teachers and other staff were briefly evacuated from a school building in central Yerevan on Thursday after what turned out to be a false bomb alert. An assistant to the school principal said ...
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- 1880 The Turkish Government forbids the word "Armenia" on official documents and maps.
- 1906 The "Armenian Central National Assembly" (in Echmiadsin) is ordered closed by the Tsar. It had opened 13 days earlier.
- 1908 Death of Mooratsan - Grigor Ter-Hovhannisyan -(writer) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1854.
- 1924 Organization of Armenia's Agricultural Co-operative.
- 1927 Death of one of Armenia's national heroes, General Andranik. He was born in 1865.
- 1991 Soviet Azerbaijan adopts its Declaration on the Re-establishment of the National Independence of the Azerbaijani Republic which declares the independence of Azerbaijan from the USSR.
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