Local residents clear rubble at the explosion site near the Surmalu shopping center in Yerevan. File photoYEREVAN, Aug 17 The area adjacent to the Surmalu shopping center in Yerevan, where an explosion occurred on August 14, has been completely cleared, Hayk Kostanyan, spokesman for the Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations, said. «The area adjacent to the building (shopping center — ed.), completely cleared, now work is underway on the site where the explosion itself took place,» Kostanyan wrote in social networks. As a result of the explosion in the shopping center, according to the latest data, 16 people died, 62 were injured. Earlier, the Yerevan Municipality specified that a warehouse of pyrotechnic materials had exploded in Surmalu.
