Explosions devastated the fireworks warehouse at a market in Yerevan on Sunday.
Rescuers recovered six bodies from a fireworks warehouse that exploded in the Armenian capital of Yerevan and more than a dozen people remain missing, the Emergencies Ministry said on Monday.
The blasts devastated the warehouse that stored fireworks at a market in Yerevan on Sunday, causing parts of the building to collapse and injuring dozens of people.
A video shared through the Emergency Ministry showed a pile of debris and twisted steel burning. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the site with officials, the ministry said.
The cause of the explosion is unclear, the government has ruled out terrorism.
“Looking at the photographs of the moment of the explosion, it becomes clear that there is talk of a terrorist act, because first there is a fire, smoke comes out and then an explosion,” armenpress news firm quoted Emergency Minister Armen as saying. Pambukhchyan. as he said.
(Reporting through Olzhas Auyezov and Caleb Davis; Edited via Emelia Sithole-Matarise)