Armenia launches terrorism case following attack on police station

The Investigative Committee of Armenia has launched criminal proceedings under the article on terrorism in connection with the attack of three people on the police station in Yerevan and the explosion.

"On the case of the invasion of three persons, threats and explosion outside the police station in the Nor-Nork district of Yerevan, the main department of the Investigative Committee for Investigation of Crimes against the State opened a criminal case under the article ‘terrorist act’," Gor Abrahamyan, the department's spokesman, wrote on his Facebook page, Caliber.Az reports.

Earlier, three people armed with grenades stormed the police station in the Nor-Nork administrative district in northeastern Yerevan. They were demanding the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Special forces of Armenia's National Security Service have entered the building of a police station where an armed attack took place. Two of them blew themselves up as a result of the detonation of one of the grenades and were hospitalized, the third attacker was detained.

It was also reported that the Armenian police released almost all members of the "Combat Brotherhood".