Armenians taken hostage in Aleppo suburb on October 29 are “safe and sound”, Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

As Tigran Balayan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, one of the hostages George Rabat had been released.

As the ministry spokesman further noted, another Armenian, Sako Kozan, was taken hostage November 5 in the same place, with Vartan Khachatrian, born in 1968, killed by accidental bullet in Aleppo’s Vilas district.

Tigran Balayan earlier told PanARMENIAN.Net that among those taken hostage are Karo Pampalian, Arsen Aroian, Levon Zeytunian, Bashar and George Rabat (father and son.)