“Dear Nikol Vovaevich, please accept our deepest condolences in connection with the death of people as a result of a fire in a Yerevan shopping center,” the telegram reads on the Kremlin’s website.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia, Hayk Kostyanyan, said that the death toll from the explosion in the Surmalu shopping center had risen to six.
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.