Twenty-five seconds: The remarkable story of Shavarsh Karapetyan

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 16, 1976, the surface of Yerevan Lake was calm and still when a sudden impact shattered the silence. A trolleybus carrying more than 90 passengers lost control near the dam and plunged into the reservoir below, vanishing almost instantly beneath the surface. Within moments, the vehicle settled at the bottom … The post Twenty-five seconds: The remarkable story of Shavarsh Karapetyan appeared first on The Armenian Weekly.

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