YEREVAN. – The medical examinations, which were conducted on those who were injured as a result of the collapse of a semi-constructed building at the heart of Armenia’s capital city Yerevan, are finished. The hospital staff has taken the injured construction workers out of their state of shock, the Health Ministry press service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. 

As a result of the examinations, solely two of the injured are in critical condition. The others have sustained minor injuries. Health Minister Derenik Dumanyan has arrived in hospital to check up on the condition of the injured.   

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, a construction crew of eleven remained under the debris as a result of Thursday’s collapse of a building in downtown Yerevan. The Ministry of Emergency Situations  received a call at 1:10pm informing that firemen and rescuers were needed. Subsequently, the firemen and rescuers were dispatched to the scene.

And the identities of the nine injured are made public, and they are as follows: Kamo Kagramanov, 50, Arman, 40, Arman Grigoryan, 25, Arsen Hayrapetyan, 30, Nahapet Badalyan, Volodya Matevosyan, Sirak Tovmasyan, Edik Sukiasyan, 30, and Robert Arakelyan, 53.

Minister of Emergency Situations Armen Yeritsyan is at the scene of the incident.

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