At least 20 dead in Stepanakert fuel depot explosion 

ArmInfo. Officials said on Tuesday that at least 20 people had been killed and nearly 300  wounded in an explosion at a fuel depot near Stepanakert, Nagorno- Karabakh. 

Emergency workers took 290 patients "with various degrees of burns"  to four different medical facilities after the blast near the city of  Stepanakert, the health ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh said in a  statement.

Seven of those people died, and 13 bodies were recovered at the site  and taken to a forensics office, the ministry said. Dozens of  patients were still in critical condition, it added.

"The doctors and medical staff in Stepanakert are doing their best to  save the lives of the wounded in these difficult and cramped  conditions," the ministry said.

The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. Witnesses from  inside Nagorno-Karabakh reported that it occurred as people lined up  to refuel their cars as they were evacuating the enclave.