“Rescuers from under the rubble removed the body of another person.
Thus, the total number of deaths has reached six people," TASS quoted him as saying.
Earlier, the department said that it was possible to establish the identity of three people who died in the explosion.
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.
On the fact of the explosion at the Surmalu market in Yerevan, a criminal case was initiated under two articles of the Criminal Code.