Police Officer Shot Dead In Armenia Standoff
Fakhir Rizvi Published July 30, 2016 | 11:50 PM
YEREVAN, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 30th july, 2016) - One of the gunmen locked in a protracted stand-off in a police station in the Armenian capital Yerevan shot an officer dead on Saturday, a police spokesman said. "A sniper opened fire from inside the police station and killed a police officer .
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who was sitting in a car parked 350-400 metres (yards) away," Ashot Aharonyan wrote on Facebook. The shooting came after police threatened to break up the standoff, which began on July 17 when pro-opposition gunmen stormed the station, killing an officer and taking several hostages.
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