Wednesday, August 5 2020 12:52

ArmInfo.According to the latest data, 6 Armenians became victims of the explosion in the port of Beirut. The Spokesperson of the Armenian Foreign Ministry Anna Naghdalyan announced this on her Facebook page.

At the same time, she added that a working group has been formed at  the RA Foreign Ministry to coordinate actions with the Lebanese  crisis structure to provide targeted assistance.  "The Armenian  Embassy in Lebanon is in constant contact with local competent bodies  to jointly assess the needs of the Lebanese side and the circle of  assistance.

At the same time, communication with the Armenian community  structures is maintained to assess their needs. The Armenian  diplomatic mission operates in an emergency mode, there is a hot  line, "Naghdalyan noted, while urging media representatives to  contact her if they have questions, thereby allowing the embassy to  carry out uninterrupted work to assist our compatriots.  At the same  time, the representative of the Armenian Foreign Ministry promised to  provide additional information on the situation in Beirut as new data  is received.

To note, a powerful explosion occurred on Tuesday evening in the port  of Beirut. As reported later by the Lebanese security forces,  ammonium nitrate detonated from a contraband cargo confiscated from  one of the ships several years ago. All these years, explosives have  been stored in a warehouse in the port awaiting their destruction.

Ammonium nitrate is used as a component of explosives and as nitrogen  fertilizer. The explosion killed at least 78 people and injured over  4,000. The blast wave destroyed and damaged dozens of houses, cars,  glass were broken in many quarters of the capital. At the scene, the  debris is being dismantled and the search for survivors and dead is  ongoing. The country has declared four days of mourning. It became  known that the explosion killed the General Secretary of the Lebanese  nationalist party "Al-Kataeb" Nazar Najarian. As the Al-Arabiya TV  channel reported, as a result of the emergency, the politician was  seriously injured, his condition was assessed as critical, the  doctors fought for his life, but could not save him.

As ArmInfo previously reported with reference to the RA Foreign  Ministry, the explosion also damaged the building of the Armenian  Embassy in Beirut. As a result of the explosion, property and  material damage was inflicted on the Catholicosate of the Great House  of Cilicia. According to the latest data, three Armenians were killed  and about 100 were injured.