ArmInfo. Residents of the village of Zartonk of Armavir region blocked the railway route along the route Yerevan-Gyumri and are holding a protest action.
Villagers demand the resignation of both the head of the village community and the director of the village school. They also demand resignation Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.
The reason for these actions of the villagers was an incident that occurred this morning. According to the residents of the village of Zartonk, this morning, around 09:00,am the grandson of the head of the Community Paruyr Sargsyan, Narek Melkonyan, who is 27 years old, opened fire in the direction of the villagers. As a result of the incident, one person was injured - this is 35-year-old Seyran Sahakyan, he was hospitalized. In addition, as the protesters say, supporters of the head of the community early in the morning attacked the home of one of the protesters Vardan Poghosyan, the latter was seriously injured as a result of a scuffle and was hospitalized in Metsamor hospital.
Meanwhile, the head of the village claims that the reason for his grandson's actions was that a group of villagers attacked the house of his daughter Manushak Sargsyan, broke down the door and smashed the windows. Paruyr Sargsyan claims that in this way his grandson defended his mother. At the scene of the incident there are a large number of police officers who are trying to calm the angry residents of the village of Zartonk. Meanwhile, the villagers assure that they will not get out of the way until high-ranking officials from Yerevan come to them and do not give a solution to the problems voiced by them. To note, on the eve a scuffle took place between the residents of the village of Zartonk and the school employees. According to the villagers, the cause of the scuffle was the non-pedagogical behavior of the daughter of the head of the village community - the school director Manushak Sargsyan, who swore at Zartonka's women.