RA MFA confirms Armenian citizen death in Sudan plane crash

RA MFA confirms Armenian citizen death in Sudan plane crash

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed that there was an Armenian citizen among the victims of the plane crash in Sudan.

Ministry’s spokesman Tigran Balayan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that the Armenian was identified as Armen Virabyan, born in 1970.

The Aug 19 crash killed 31 people, including Sudanese guidance and endowments (religious affairs) minister Ghazi al-Sadeq, state minister for youth and sports Mahjoub Abdel Raheem Toutou, and state minister for tourism, antiquities and wildlife Eissa Daifallah.

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