Law enforcers start preparing access routes to Patrol-Guard Service Regiment building for military equipment

 The law enforcers have started to prepare the access routes to the Patrol-Guard Service Regiment building in Erebuni district in Yerevan for military equipment, ArmInfo's correspondent reports from the scene.   

The law enforcers also asked the media representatives to leave the traffic area near the seized building.  Earlier two ambulance cars were let into the territory.   

To recall, on July 17, Artsakh war hero Zhirayr Sefilyan's armed supporters, who are calling themselves "Sasna Tsrer" (The Daredevils of Sasun), seized the building of the Patrol-Guard Service Regiment in Erebuni district of Yerevan. They demand releasing Sefilyan, who was arrested on June 20 on suspicion of acquisition and keeping of weapons and ammunition. The armed group is still holding police as hostages. Deputy Head of the Patrol- Guard Service Regiment, Colonel Artur Vanoyan was killed in the incident. Armenian MP Nikol Pashinyan says that during his visit to the Erebuni Police Department building he saw 26 members of the "Sasna Tsrer" group.    

By various data, the armed group is currently holding 4-5 people as hostages, with Deputy Chief of Armenian Police Vardan Yeghiazaryan and Deputy Chief of Yerevan Police Valery Osipyan among them.