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UPDATED: Yerevan market explosion: Death toll climbs to 15

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 07:50,

YEREVAN, AUGUST 16, ARMENPRESS. The death toll in the Yerevan Surmalu market blast reached 15, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

Search and rescue operations still continue.

9 of the 15 victims are yet to be identified.

Of the 60 people who sought medical treatment 12 continue being treated at various hospitals while the others were discharged.

171 firefighter-rescuers, search and rescue teams from Shirak and Tavush, teams from the Russian-Armenian Humanitarian Response Center, volunteers from the VOMA survival-training organization, more than 100 volunteers from the Red Cross are involved in the efforts.

Yerevan City Hall dispatched multiple tractors, trucks and water tanks, as well as other special equipment.

The firefighting efforts are personally coordinated by Minister of Emergency Situations Armen Pambukhchyan.

18 people are presumed missing the explosion. Those unaccounted for include a citizen of Russia and a citizen of Iran.

UPDATES:

08:51 – Death toll reaches 16 




Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS