Monday, July 24 2017 16:43

ArmInfo.MES of Armenia awaits the results of the examination of the explosion that took place today at the gas-filling station at the entrance to the city of Artashat,  Ararat region. The cause of the explosion, said today at a press  conference the head of the National Center for Crisis Management of  the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia Hovhannes  Khangeldyan, is still unknown.

According to him, for the first half of 2017, 11 explosions were  registered in Armenia, 6 more than in 2016.  At the same time,  Khangeldyan stressed, there is no sharp increase in incidents  connected with explosions at the gas station. According to the  representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the  Republic of Armenia, from 2016 a large-scale process of inspections  at the gas station began. As a result, the number of violations and  accidents decreased. "I think the mass checks gave their result,"  Hovhannes Khangeldyan said.

Today, early in the morning, an explosion occurred at one of the gas  stations in Armenia. The reason for the explosion was the fact that  during the refueling the gas cylinder of the VAZ-2106 car blew up. As  a result of the explosion, a petrol station worker was injured. It  should be recalled that on May 4, at a Cabinet meeting, Karen  Karapetyan, the head of the government, acknowledged the  unsatisfactory work of gas filling stations (AGS). "The quality of  services provided by automobile gas stations and their compliance  with the norms of technical safety are assessed as extremely  unsatisfactory," he said.- said the prime minister, recalling that  only in the last period a number of incidents with explosions of gas  cylinders at gas stations were registered. This situation, according  to the head of the Cabinet, in particular, is due to insufficient  control over the sphere. According to Karapetyan, the fact that to  this day there is no effective system for preventing violations of  the permissible pressure limit is of extreme concern.