YEREVAN. – A large fire broke out Saturday at the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies of Armenia.

At 8:11am, the 911 emergency hotline received a report that smoke was coming out from the second and third floors of the ministry building.

Six fire and rescue squads as well as an emergency response team were dispatched to the scene. 

It was found out that the fire had broken out in a room of the ministry.

The fire was extinguished at 8:37am.

But one square meter of the floor of this room had been destroyed by the fire, while a shelf and the refrigerator were partially burned.

No one was affected by the fire.