News - One of those hospitalized as result of Yerevan State University explosion, fire is police officer

One injured person, a police officer, was brought to Heratsi hospital of Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU) as a result of the fire at Yerevan State University (YSU). Shushan Danielyan, the YSMU chief of staff, wrote about this on Facebook. "The specialists assess the condition [of this police officer] as satisfactory. Additional information will be provided," Danielyan added. Earlier, Armenian News-NEWS.am reported that at around 9:40am Friday, the 911 emergency hotline of Armenia received a call informing that a fire had broken out in a YSU building. According to preliminary data, there is one casualty as a result of an explosion and ensuing fire in the building of the YSU Faculty of Chemistry, and three people have been injured and hospitalized. According to the initial theory, the fire was caused by the fluctuation of electricity current. The fire has been extinguished. And the National Center of Burns and Dermatology in Yerevan informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that two people—Seyran Bichakhchyan, 70, and Aharon Hakobyan, 65—were brought to them. They were bandaged there and transferred to Armenia Medical Center. They had polytrauma, multi fragmentary injury, third-degree chemical burns.