75 STILL IN HOSPITAL AFTER BALLOON EXPLOSION IN YEREVAN

06:27 pm | Today | Social

As of May 7, 75 of the 154 people injured during the Friday balloon
explosion in Yerevan are still in hospital. Fifteen of them are still
at reanimation wards.

Doctors say their condition is satisfactory, the Ministry of Health
reports.

At least 154 people were injured in the Armenian capital on may 4 after
clusters of gas balloons exploded at a political rally organised by
the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK).

Municipal authorities blamed the explosions on a cigarette being lit
near the balloons.

The balloons were decorated with the governing Republican Party’s
slogan “Let’s believe in change”.