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Third night passed without incidents on Khorenatsi street /updated/ (video)

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10.13 As we reported earlier, on Tuesday evening demonstrators blocked the sections leading from Nar-Dos and Tigran Mets streets to Khorenatsi street with metal barriers they had taken from police officers. Today, the police removed the barriers, but the protesters formed a human wall, closing the section again. 08.40 The area, where the seized police building in Yerevan is located, remained cordoned off by security forces on Wednesday morning.  A group of demonstrators and police officers greeted the third dawn on Khorenatsi street after a quiet night. Information about Apha group is not true 08.00 “The situation there [in Sari Tagh] remains tense,” Pashinyan said in a live video broadcast on Facebook. He said he saw a police checkpoint on a Sari Tagh street leading to Erebuni. Returning to Khorenatsi street Pashinyan said people cannot come to Khorenatsi because police officers hinder their movement. As for the reports that a 65-member Alpha group is arriving to Armenia to neutralize the gunmen in the seized police compound, the lawmaker said ‘no other country has the right to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign Armenia.’ he suggested that the authorities give an official explanation to avoid even worse consequences. Later, he informed everyone that the information about Apha group is not true. "I told him that I was going to cite him and I announce now and here that Chief of Yerevan's Police, Major-General Ashot Karapetyan officially dismissed the report," Pashinyan said. Nikol Pashinyan went to verify 'alarming information 22.47 Nikol Pashinyan warned people gathered on Khorenatsi street that he had to leave the area for 40 minutes. Before going, he made sure that the police would not take any actions against the citizens during his absence.  The lawmaker said he was going ‘to verify some alarming information’ which he could not make public at that moment. Four policemen injured near seized police premises 22.23 Addressing the people gathered outside the seized police station in Erebuni district, lawmaker Nikol Pashinyan said when Varujan Avetisyan, one of the armed group members, said they opened fire ‘to salute people’, he meant residents of Sari Tagh who tried to advance on Khorenatsi street but were met with a heavy police cordon. Soon, scuffles erupted between the police and those residents. People threw stoned at the police injuring four police officers. Journalists allowed to enter the seized police building 21.55 Journalists of Azatutyun and Civilnet have been allowed to enter the seized police premises to talk to the hostages and hostage takers.  It was Nikol Pashinyan who decided which media organizations can send representatives to the building. 21.50 Ararat Khandoyan, the brother of one of the gunmen who remain inside the seized police station in Yerevan with four hostages, addressed people a little time ago. He said he had talked to his brother who had informed that ‘the hostages feel well, even much better than in their police uniforms.’ 21.14 “There was no collision inside the police building. The shots were fired by the members of the Sasna Dzrer group as a sign of protest against the violence the police used against citizens at Liberty Square on Monday,” Armenian lawmaker Nikol Pashinyan said after talking to Varujan Avetisyan, one of the members of the armed group. In reply to a citizen’s observation that three ambulances were seen leaving the cordoned area a little while before, the lawmaker advised not to spread unverified information. At the same time, Pashinyan proposed to create a group of reporters to enter the territory of the seized police headquarters or let him go and find out what is going on there, because the ‘information blockade is causing a stir.’ nikol1 Shots heard near seized police premises in Yerevan 20.43  Turmoil has started near the police patrol service building in Yerevan seized on Sunday morning by a group calling itself Sasna Dzrer. No one knows what is going in the cordoned area. Activists report from the scene that two ambulances passed through the crowd of people some time ago. Everything started when the crowd heard shots from the seized police premises. Varujan Avetisyan, a member of the Sasna Dzrer armed group, said on the phone that the shots were fired by the group members who thought there had been an attack on people. One person has been detained. More policemen and vehicles seen on Khorenatsi street 18.33 More police personnel and vehicles are heading to Yerevan’s Khorenatsi street where an armed group calling itself Sasna Dzrer continues to control a police patrol service building that it seized on the morning of July 17. The authorities have given the gunmen until 7 p.m. to discuss and accept their proposals. The answer will be passed through Alek Yenigomshyan, a member of the Founding Parliament movement. The content of proposals is not known.