Ethnic Armenians keen to flee escalating violence in Syria have limited options of taking refuge in Armenia as all the tickets for a single flight service currently existing between the two countries have been booked until September.
Some of them have had to take a risky journey by bus, crossing three borders before reaching a safer country.
Svetlana Hovannisian, who manages the Yerevan office of Syrian Airlines carrying out Aleppo-Yerevan flights, said a rise in passenger traffic is not unusual for summer months. "Now the number of passengers has also increased in connection with the events in Syria. Many ethnic Armenians are coming from there to Armenia," she told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am).
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