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    Armenia gathers donor blood for Beslan hostages
    By Tigran Liloyan

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    September 3, 2004 Friday

    YERVAN, September 3 -- Armenia has appealed to the country's blood
    donors to give blood for the hostages held in the North Ossetian town
    of Beslan.

    The Armenian Health Ministry has announced that any person willing
    to donate blood will be welcome at the Yerevan Research Institute
    of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, and Armenian Public Television
    has shown the address and telephone number of the Institute, where
    physicians are on duty round the clock.

    Ararat Gomtsian, Head of the Armenian Consulate-General in
    Russia's Southern Federal District, told ITAR-TASS by telephone
    from Rostov-on-Don on Friday that he would travel to North Ossetia
    on Saturday.

    If need be, he intends to organize the airlifting of the victims to
    Yerevan for treatment. According to preliminary data, there were five
    Armenians - four children and their mother - among the hostages taken
    in Beslan.

    It transpired on Friday that the hostage takers were also holding an
    Armenian family of three or four people.
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