YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Emergency Situations Ministry received a call, on Friday at 8:52pm, informing of a fire in Lori Region’s Vanadzor city. 

A freighting squad was dispatched to the scene, the Ministry’s press service informs. 

It was found out that the fire had started at the basement of a shack and, as a result, Narek Sargsyan, 6, had received second-degree burns. The child was transferred to Vanadzor Medical Center.  

The fire was put out by the locals, but a plastic water container was burned. 

Doctors say the child is in average critical condition.