Six people died in an explosion in a shopping center in Yerevan

“The total number of deaths has already reached six people”, - Sputnik Armenia reports with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

The city administration indicated that a warehouse with pyrotechnic materials exploded in the Surmalu shopping center. The building collapsed.

Employees of the Armenian-Russian Center for Humanitarian Response are also fighting the fire.

On the eve it became known about 51 victims of an explosion in the Armenian capital. Among the victims were 12 minors. One of the children ended up in intensive care, and the rest were discharged.