As of 12:00 on August 17, search and rescue operations are going on. At the same time, large-scale cleaning of the area is being carried out.
The Press Spokesman of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Hayk Kostanyan reported.
The fire was isolated at 2:38 p.m. on 16 August and extinguished at 5:49 p.m. According to preliminary data, the area of firefighting and rescue operations is about 1 ha. The three-story building (about 2889 square meters) collapsed.
As a result of search and rescue works, the bodies of 16 citizens were found.
- Misak Patvakan Margaryan, born in 1964,
- Anahit Vazgen Mkhitaryan, born in 1967,
- Jemma Sargs Nazaryan, born in 1960,
- Anahit Zarzand Khalatyan,
- Vardan Gurgen Kocharyan, born in 1960,
- Gayane Artavazd Avetisyan, born in 1965,
- Aram Komisar Hayrapetyan, born in 1980,
- Vachagan Vahagn Yeghoyan, born in 2000,
- Erna Manvel Grigoryan, born in 1980,
- Harutyun Samvel Garakyan, born in 1987,
- Mariam Armen Khachatryan, born in 1992,
- Sirarpi Armen Khachatryan, born in 1994,
- Marat Karen Shahbazyan, born in 2018,
- Hrachya Fanberg Sargsyan, born in 1976,
- Artavazd Hayrapetyan, born in 1951.
- and the body of one unidentified citizen.
62 citizens applied to medical centers of Yerevan city, 5 of them continue to receive treatment, and the rest received appropriate medical care and were discharged.
As a result of the calls received to the 911 hotline of the MES, the following citizens can be considered missing in the territory of the “Surmalu” Shopping Center:
- Gagik Karapetyan
- Vanik Amirkhanyan.
If you have any information about missing citizens, please call the “911” hotline.
Let’s remind that on 14 August, at 1:23 p.m., the National Crisis Management Center received an alert that an explosion and fire occurred in the “Surmalu” Shopping Center located at 15 Arshakunyats Street in Yerevan, as a result of which the three-story building partially collapsed.
The bodies of 16 people, including a pregnant woman and a young child, were taken out of the rubble in the area of the explosion.
62 citizens applied to medical centers of Yerevan city, 7 of them continue to receive treatment, and the rest received appropriate medical care and were discharged.
Mourning has been announced in Armenia and Artsakh on 17 and 18 August.
