On December 27, at 11:41 information was received to Crisis Management National Center that car explosion had occurred at a gas station in Ddmashen village of Gegharkunik province.

Two fire units from the Fire and Rescue Squad of Regional Rescue Department of the Rescue Service of the MIA of RA dispatched.

t turned out that the gas cylinder of “UAZ” car (driver A. H. born in 1983) exploded at a gas station on the 51st km of Yerevan-Sevan roadway. As a result of the explosion, passenger N. H. (born in 1985) died and gas station employee S. S. (born in 1986) was hospitalized in a medical center. The ceiling of the gas station was damaged (about 10 square meters). 

The rescuers removed the dead body from the car and moved to the ambulance.