Anush Balasanyan, 59, her daughter Vahanush Hakobyan, and 12-year-old grandson have died early Tuesday morning in a fire in Stepanavan town of Armenia’s Lori Province.
The Stepanavan city hall informed about the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.
“The initial cause of the fire was a short circuit,” the city hall added. “[But] it will be clearer only after the investigation.”
Balasanyan’s son, Davit Hakobyan, 26, was injured in the fire. He is in critical but stable condition, and later he will be transferred to capital city Yerevan.
As reported earlier, on Tuesday 6:33am, the 911 emergency hotline received a report that fire had broken out in an apartment of a building in Stepanavan.
It was found out that the fire had broken out in an apartment of a two-story wooden building.
The rescuers removed from the apartment the dead bodies of a 36- and 59-year-old woman who had died of smoke inhalation, whereas a 26-year-old man and a 12-year-old boy were taken to Stepanavan town hospital where, however, the boy also died.
The fire was extinguished at 7:25am.
But the cupboard, a bed, and the floor of this apartment were destroyed by the fire.
