Sasna Tsrer insurgents take two doctors hostage to ensure medical care to their wounded friends
27.07.2016,
12:59
Sasna Tsrer, the group of men who has seized the police regiment territory in Yerevan, has taken two doctors hostage to ensure medical care to their wounded friends.
YEREVAN, July 27. /ARKA/. Sasna Tsrer, the group of men who has seized the police regiment territory in Yerevan, has taken two doctors hostage to ensure medical care to their wounded friends.
Ashot Aharonyan, the spokesman of the Armenian police department, says on his Facebook page that this night the insurgents told the police that there are two wounded men among them.
The police offered them to take their wounded friends to hospital but they rejected the offer. Still, they demanded an ambulance crew and when doctors came to the scene, they were taken hostage.
Aharonyan says that the police is trying to free the doctor through negotiation.
Sasna Tsrer stormed the police regiment territory on July 17 and took some officers hostage, demanding the release of Zhirayr Sefilian, the jailed opposition leader of Founding Parliament movement, and the resignation of the president.
According to the police, one police officer had been killed and five others and one attacker wounded in the assault.
Two top police officials, Armenian Deputy Police Chief Vardan Egiazaryan and Yerevan Deputy Police Chief Valeri Osipyan, were among the hostages.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the territory to bar the law enforcement units from storming the building and to prevent а bloody outcome.
The police units cleaned up the territory of demonstrators Wednesday night and detained dozens of people.
As many as 51 people injured in the clashes, including 28 policemen, received medical services that night. On the next day people gathered again.
All the hostages have gradually been released by the rebels.
On Monday and Tuesday, thousands of people in Yerevan took to the streets and marched demanding the release of Zhirair Sefilian and the resignation of the president. --0----
Ashot Aharonyan, the spokesman of the Armenian police department, says on his Facebook page that this night the insurgents told the police that there are two wounded men among them.
The police offered them to take their wounded friends to hospital but they rejected the offer. Still, they demanded an ambulance crew and when doctors came to the scene, they were taken hostage.
Aharonyan says that the police is trying to free the doctor through negotiation.
Sasna Tsrer stormed the police regiment territory on July 17 and took some officers hostage, demanding the release of Zhirayr Sefilian, the jailed opposition leader of Founding Parliament movement, and the resignation of the president.
According to the police, one police officer had been killed and five others and one attacker wounded in the assault.
Two top police officials, Armenian Deputy Police Chief Vardan Egiazaryan and Yerevan Deputy Police Chief Valeri Osipyan, were among the hostages.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the territory to bar the law enforcement units from storming the building and to prevent а bloody outcome.
The police units cleaned up the territory of demonstrators Wednesday night and detained dozens of people.
As many as 51 people injured in the clashes, including 28 policemen, received medical services that night. On the next day people gathered again.
All the hostages have gradually been released by the rebels.
On Monday and Tuesday, thousands of people in Yerevan took to the streets and marched demanding the release of Zhirair Sefilian and the resignation of the president. --0----
