Two Armenian teenagers kidnapped at Syrian-Turkish border

Two Armenian teenagers kidnapped at Syrian-Turkish border
July 29, 2013 - 19:49 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Two Armenian teenagers were abducted at the Syrian-Turkish border.

“The women who accompanied them were released and allowed to cross the border into Turkey,” press secretary of the Armenian Prelacy in Aleppo Jirayr Reisian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, without giving any further details.

For his part, spokesman for the RA Foreign Ministry Tigran Balayan said he contacted the Armenian embassy in Damascus but the information was not confirmed yet.

He also said that the fate of four Syrian Armenians who were kidnapped at the border last week, remains unclear.

On July 26, militants stopped a minibus en route from Aleppo to Yerevan. They let three women go but took the men, whose names are already known: Karo Papoghlian, Garegin Atsagortsian, Narek Varzhapetian and Sako Asadurian.

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