“The identities of the dead have been established ... Anahit Mkhitaryan, Jemma Nazaryan and Misak Margaryan,” RIA Novosti quotes press secretary of the department Hayk Kostanyan.

The fate of 17 more people remains unknown.

Earlier it was reported about 60 injured and two dead as a result of an explosion in a market in Yerevan.

As the head of the press service of Yerevan Municipality Levon Sardaryan stated, search and rescue operations at the site of the explosion at the Surmalu market are proceeding slowly, as there may be living people under the rubble.

The death toll from the explosion at the Surmalu market in Yerevan has risen to three.