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Rescuers have found the body of the 2-year-old boy who went missing on May 4 in an Armenian village.
The body of 2-year-old Tigran Petrosyan from Marmarik village, Kotayk province was recovered from the Marmarik River by search and rescue teams, authorities announced Saturday.
“Dear countrymen, I must share painful news,” Ministry of Internal Affairs spokesperson Narek Sargsyan said in a statement. “Today, around 10:40, in the Marmarik River, near the adjacent Hrazdan TPP bridge , rescue service officers found the body of the child who went missing on May 4,” he said and extended condolences to the family of the child.
The 911 call on a missing child, 2-year-old Tigran Petrosyan from Marmarik village, was made around midday, May 4, to the Kotayk Crisis Management Center. The primary hypothesis was around a possible accidental fall into the eponymous Marmarik river, which runs close to the family's house, but police did not initially rule out foul play and said they were looking into every possible hypothesis, including kidnapping.
The search and rescue operation involved hundreds of rescuers, police officers, volunteers, K9 units, divers and UAVs.
Authorities even attempted to track the child’s movement via satellite images.