According to the oblast health department, at that time, 16 victims of mild and moderate severity arrived at the regional medical institutions, he wrote on Facebook.
Kalkamanov noted that one of the victims, the military, was sent to the regional hospital.
Earlier it was reported that in the south of Kazakhstan, the population is being evacuated from houses located near the military unit where the fire occurred.
The President of Kazakhstan, Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, instructed to find out the causes of the incident at the warehouse of a military unit in the south of the country.
It was also reported that the first victims of the explosion on the territory of a military unit in the city of Arys had been admitted to a hospital in Shymkent in southern Kazakhstan.