“We managed to completely localize the fire, the fire is no longer spreading.
But since we do not know what is in the warehouses and what is currently burning, extinguishing the fire is complicated, ”TASS quotes Kostyanyan.
He stated that the Ministry of Emergency Situations continues rescue operations at the site of the explosion.
Earlier, 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.