On 1 July, at 2:26 p.m., the National Crisis Management Center received an alarm that a bomb had been placed in the food court of the “Yerevan Mall” entertainment complex.

A fire brigade from the fire-rescue detachment of the rescue department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the engineering sapper detachment of the Civil Defense Forces Collective Center of the Civil Defense Department, the rescue group of the Special Rescue Group of the Rescue Department, the operative group of the National Crisis Management Center and the instructor of the psychological support department had left to the site.