Armenian MFA reports about man killed on airfield at Sheremetyevo Airport

The man killed on the flight strip at the Sheremetyevo Airport has been identified as Albert Epremyan, a 25-year-old citizen of Armenia, reports the spokesperson for the Armenian diplomatic mission in Moscow.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in the evening on November 20, at the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, while accelerating, an airplane to fly from Moscow to Athens collided with a man who was killed as a result. Earlier, the man had been deported from Spain to his homeland with a change in Moscow.

"We can confirm the information about the death of Albert Epremyan, a citizen of Armenia, born in 1993. He was killed as a result of an accident on the flight strip at the Sheremetyevo Airport," the TASS quotes today the spokesperson for the Armenian Embassy as reporting.

"According to investigators, on November 20, 2018, the 25-year-old man arrived at the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow on an airplane which flew from Madrid. After checking in for the Moscow-Yerevan flight, the man, along with other passengers, proceeded to the airplane. Later, under still unidentified circumstances, when boarding the bus, the young man left for some unknown destination onto the territory of the airport flight strips. At 8:10 p.m., the man stepped onto the flight strip where he was fatally injured," reports the today's message published on the website of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 21, 2018 at 03:11 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.