08:01, 12 August 2016

Four persons still stay in Yerevan hospitals after capture of police regiment building

After the discharge of five persons injured during the capture of the police regiment building in Yerevan, one policeman, one rebel, and two demonstrators still stay in hospitals.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in the period from July 17 to 31, supporters of the "Constituent Parliament" held the building of the patrol-and-post service of the police regiment in Yerevan. On the day of the assault, one police officer was killed, and six other persons were injured. On July 30, after the dispersal of the rally in support of the rebels, 55 demonstrators and four policemen were brought to hospitals.

According to Anait Aiatyan, the chief of the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Public Health (MPH), the health state of policeman Gagik Mkrtchyan, injured in a shootout with rebels, is assessed by physicians as serious, but stable. He is still connected to an artificial respiration unit.

"Today, Sedrak Nazaryan, a member of the armed group, also wounded in the shootout, has been transferred from the resuscitation ward to a ward for patients of the medical centre of 'Erebuni'," Anait Aiatyan has added.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Author: Tigran Petrosyan

Source: CK correspondent