In Yerevan, a young policeman was killed

On Sunday night, the police tried to disperse protest participants on Bagramyan Avenue

In Yerevan, from the territory of the PPS regiment by an armed sniper, an employee of the police officers Yuri Tepanosyan, who was in the car at a distance of 350-400 meters from the PPS regiment, wrote on his page on Facebook, the police secretary of Armenia Ashot Agaronyan was killed.

Sasna Tsare refutes the allegations of the murder of a policeman. “I declare with all responsibility - the policeman died not from our shot,” said one of the members of the Sasna Tsare armed group, who captured the police regiment, Varuzhan Avetisyan reports Armenian Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

“This territory is outside our review, in all likelihood, he died as a result of a random shooting of his own sniper. I can’t say what is deliberately, but I assure that not from our shot, ”Avetisyan emphasized.

According to the Armenian service of our radio station , the US Embassy in Armenia is ready to apply sanctions in relation to those who may be involved or responsible for the use of disproportionate force last night during the dispersal of the protest in Yerevan. The US Ambassador to Armenia Richard Miles announced this on Saturday during a visit to the Yerevan Bureau of the Armenian Radio Liberty (Radio Azatutyun).