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The Ministry of Emergency Situations says fire engines rushed to the scene of the blast where people are feared trapped.
At least one person has been killed and an unknown number of people trapped in rubble after a strong explosion ripped through a retail market in Armenia’s capital Yerevan, according to officials.
Rescue workers were working to pull people out of the rubble, Levon Sardaryan, a spokesman for the Yerevan mayor, told Associated Press.
The emergency situations ministry said there were 10 firefighting trucks on the spot and another 10 were on their way to the Surmalu market, located about two kilometers (over a mile) south of the city’s centre.
Photos and videos posted on social media showed a thick column of black smoke over the market and successive detonations could be heard.
The blast, cause of which was not immediately known, set off a large fire in an area where fireworks were stored, the mayor spokesman said.
The Armenian emergency service ministry said at least 20 people were injured in the blast.
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