Epress.am News from Armenia
According to preliminary information by the Armenian Embassy in Russia, there are no citizens of the Republic of Armenia among those injured or killed as a result of today's crash in the Moscow metro. This news was conveyed by the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs at 3:30 pm local time on its Facebook page [AM].
Recall, one of the trains in Moscow's metro derailed this morning. According to the BBC: "Scores were injured, some seriously, when a packed commuter train braked abruptly between stations in the west of the city in the morning rush hour […] The cause of the crash — one of the worst incidents ever on the metro — is reported to be a power surge."
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