ArmInfo. Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutyan instructed to provide residents of the four-story building, which partially collapsed in Yerevan due to a gas explosion, with temporary housing. This was reported by the press service of the mayor's office.
According to the source, experts will study the issue of earthquake resistance of this building and decide on the feasibility of its restoration. After the end of the search and investigation, the street will be cleared.
To note, this morning, as a result of the explosion, a partial collapse occurred in a 4-storey building at Raynis 1 in the administrative district of Kanaker-Zeytun. According to preliminary data, a gas leak was the cause of the explosion. 12 apartments in the 5th entrance partially collapsed. Two dozen citizens were evacuated.
Three people remained under the rubble of buildings. Two of them have already been moved to the capital's university hospital, one of them received severe burns. The third victim died.