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Restaurant explosion in Moscow injures five ethnic Armenians

10.01.2012, 14:57
Five ethnic Armenians were injured in a gas explosion and fire at a Moscow restaurant on Monday that killed two people and injured at least 39, Novosdti Armenia reported citing lifenews.ru.
Restaurant explosion in Moscow injures five ethnic Armenians
YEREVAN, January 10, /ARKA/. Five ethnic Armenians were injured in a gas explosion and fire at a Moscow restaurant on Monday that killed two people and injured at least 39, Novosdti Armenia reported citing lifenews.ru. They are 3 year-old Nika Agadjanova, 14 year-old Feliks Mkrtchian, also Viktoria and Svetlana Agadjanovas- 39 and 52 and a 36 year-old Siranush Yegoyan, a worker of the restaurant. It is not clear yet whether they are citizens of Armenia.

The explosion occurred at about 3:30 p.m. in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant called Il Pittore. The fire, believed to have been set off by the explosion, spread quickly through the brick building.

Spokesmen for the city health department and the city emergency services were quoted as saying that 32 people hospitalized. -0-