On June 11, at 08։34 an emergency call was received to Gegharkunik Regional Crisis Management Center that fire had broken out in a building in Chambarak town.

Two fire units from the Fire and Rescue Squad of Regional Rescue Department and two rescue groups with cynologists from the Center for Carrying out Activities of Special Importance of Rescue Forces Department of the Rescue Service of the MIA of RA dispatched to the scene.

According to preliminary data, a gas explosion with collapse occurred at an apartment on the third floor in a building on Tigran Mets Street. Apartments on the 4th, 3rd and 2nd floors collapsed. Apartments in the adjacent entrance partially collapsed.

The number of victims has increased to three: as of 14:48, the rescuers found the dead body of another resident of the building from the rubble as a result of ongoing search and rescue operations.

There were casualties who were hospitalized.

Additional information will be provided.