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Yerevan gunmen ask for doctors for wounded, take them hostage on arrival

Armenia Materials 27 July 2016 12:03 (UTC +04:00)
The gunmen took doctors hostage in Yerevan, an official representative of the Armenian police said, TASS reported July 27.
Yerevan gunmen ask for doctors for wounded, take them hostage on arrival

Baku, Azerbaijan, July 27

Trend:

The doctors who were requested by the gunmen to assist the wounded in the headquarters of the police and in Yerevan, were taken hostage, an official representative of the Armenian police said, TASS reported July 27.

“Currently, the law enforcement officers are taking measures to release the doctors through negotiations," the representative said.

The armed group seized the headquarters of the police and interior troops in Erebuni, Yerevan, July 17, demanding the release of the participant of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, coordinator of the opposition Armenian civil initiative ‘Founding Parliament’ Zhirayr Sefilyan.

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