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YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS: It has been already the third day that the representative of the Armenian community of Damascus Yervand Telyan has been missing. It was reported to Armenpress by an anonymous representative of the Syrian Armenian community. The parents of the young man tell that he left the house to park the car in a more convenient place and did not come back. The car of Yervand Telyan as well is missing. It is known that the rich Telyan family lives nearby the Abbasi Square. It is supposed that the young was kidnapped, though the kidnappers have not yet contacted the parents.
On September 27 life in Damascus is quiet and calm, the traffic is normal, markets are open, there are no shoots and explosions, collisions continue in the peripheries of the city.
There is information as well that all the Armenian schools currently function and the Holy Translators Armenian National School received its 512 Armenian schoolchildren this year. The mentioned figure is higher by 100 than the previous year's indices.
In the evening of September 26 four people were killed in the result of the two explosions and more than ten people were wounded nearby the Gyulbenkyan National Seminary located between the streets Suleimania and Telefon Hauaye of Aleppo. The inhabitant of Der Dzor Vardan Mutafyan is among the killed and the wounded Zarmik Najaryan is currently under the supervision of doctors.
In Syria more than 30,000 people, including more than 20 Armenians, died in the collisions between the opposition and government forces, which have lasted about 18 months.