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| Armed suspects attack a police station in Yerevan |
| 2024-03-25 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A group of armed people broke into the police department building in Yerevan. A grenade exploded near the building, Sputnik reported on March 24. The attack took place in the Nor-Nork district of the Armenian capital. It is reported that there are injuries. Security forces cordoned off the police building. It is reported that several members of the “Combat Brotherhood” organization are allegedly located near the station, demanding that the detained people be released. Earlier on March 24, the Armenian police announced the detention of 49 people in the republic on suspicion of illegally carrying and storing weapons and ammunition. They were taken to local police stations. According to the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic Narek Sargsyan, we are talking about members of the “Combat Brotherhood” who planned to conduct tactical training in the Tavush region on March 24. The police the day before demanded that people refrain from traveling to the region. As Regnum reported, in mid-January, two masked men burst into a school in the city of Angoulême in southern France and sprayed tear gas. A student and a teacher were injured. They were slightly injured. Last July, four armed men attacked a police station in Sistan and Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran. They blew up the gate with grenades and started shooting. Six people, including two security forces, died. The incident occurred in the city of Zahedan. The situation repeated itself in early September in the city of Taftan - two policemen also died. More from regnum.ru Special forces detained an attacker at a police station in Yerevan Special forces of the National Security Service of Armenia began to storm the captured police department in Yerevan and detained the armed attacker who was there. This became known on March 24. According to the press secretary of the Armenian police, Narek Sargsyan, the man was neutralized. “The man has been detained,” he told reporters. It is noted that no one was injured during the operational activities. As Regnum reported, a group of armed people broke into the building of the Yerevan police department on the evening of March 24. The attack took place in the Nor-Nork area, there were wounded. Security forces cordoned off the building; according to preliminary information, the attackers turned out to be members of the “Combat Brotherhood” organization, who demanded that 49 people detained the day before on suspicion of illegally carrying and storing weapons and ammunition be released. It later turned out that two of the three attackers were wounded using a grenade. They were taken to the hospital, but the third man was left alone near the station. |
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