ArmInfo. Negotiations on the release of the hostage from the kindergarten "Manushak" in the city of Armavir are continuing. The press secretary of the Police of Armenia Edgar Janoyan told ArmInfo correspondent.
He noted that at the moment the man took hostage a 3-year-old boy. Janoyan also said that the motives of the crime are of a personal nature.
The representative of the press service of the RA Police Martun Simonyan told reporters that law enforcement bodies are working in the kindergarten building: "Representatives of law enforcement bodies led by the deputy head of the RA Police Hunan Poghosyan are negotiating with a man who entered the kindergarten with a knife and took the people hostage. Simoyan also informed that the identity of the man who entered the kindergarten was known, but he did not disclose it.
Meanwhile, ArmInfo has learned from its own sources in Armavir, a man who attacked the kindergarten with a knife, presumably the former son-in-law of the director of the kindergarten.