A fireworks factory has exploded in the <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/armenia/" target="_blank">Armenian</a> capital, Yerevan, killing at least one person and injuring more than 20, authorities said. Footage posted on social media shows crowds of people running from a pall of smoke rising over the city's streets, before a huge blast levels a multi-storey building. Witnesses at the Surmalu market reported hearing two <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/2022/08/14/fireworks-factory-explosion-in-yerevan-in-pictures/" target="_blank">explosions</a>, local media said. The city mayor’s office said there were an unknown number of people trapped under rubble and that a building that was storing fireworks had caught fire. The blast and fire at the market <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/2022/08/14/huge-explosion-hits-market-in-armenias-capital/" target="_blank">sent a cloud of smoke over Yerevan</a>. The market is about two kilometres south of the city’s centre. Rescue workers were working to pull people out of the rubble, said Levon Sardaryan, a spokesman for Yerevan's mayor.
