15:20, 5 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 5, ARMENPRESS: In accordance to the information of the Syrian Armenian First Aid Body for Emergencies over 
90 Aleppo Armenians have already been kidnapped because of one year ongoing clashes in Aleppo. The Press Secretary of the Armenian National Prelacy in Aleppo Jirair Reisian told Armenpress that fortunately the majority has been released. The number of wounded Armenians exceeds 87, the number of victims is being clarified. Presumably their number is about 4 dozen. Two servicemen Khajak Abelyan and Ghazar Karapetyan are missing till now. First Aid Body for Emergencies has allocated over 3500 parcels to the Aleppo Armenians. Conditioned by ongoing clashes in Aleppo in a year, about 12-13 thousand Armenians had left the city.
In accordance to UN earlier published data the overall death toll in Syria surpasses 70 thousand people. The number of Syrian refugees reaches 940 thousand. Turkey has absorbed 300 thousand Syrian refugees, 200 thousand Syrians found shelter in Jordan.