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    Emil Lazarian
  • 4 years ago
    • Categories: 2022

Yerevan blast: Third body retrieved from under the debris at Surmalu

Public Radio of Armenia
Aug 14 2022
, 22:48
 Less than a minute

Body of another citizen has been retrieved from under the debrils at Surmalu trade center in Yerevan.

The death toll has now reached three. Twenty-seven are missing.

Sixty-one people receivef treatment at various hospitals. Of those hurt, 24 remain hospitalized. Their condition is assessed as moderate.

A powerful explosion hit a large market in Yerevan on Sunday, starting a fire.

The blast happened at a building where fireworks were stored. The cause is unknown.

Posts on social media showed a thick column of black smoke above the market, with successive detonations audible.

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