YEREVAN. – Two remaining hostages — both senior police officers — kept in the seized police headquarters in Yerevan had been released.
Deputy chief of Armenia’s police Vardan Yeghiazaryan and deputy chief of Yerevan policy Valery Osipyan has been released by an armed group.
Earlier on Saturday the gunmen set free other two hostages had been released without preconditions.
According to Shant television, member of the group Varuzhan Avetisyan met with the director of the National Security Service Gevorg Kutoyan and decided to release another two hostages in exchange for setting up a media center. The report was confirmed for Shant television by General Vitaly Balasanyan who was a mediator in the meeting.
“The process of creating a neutral zone for their communication with reporters is underway,” Balasanyan said. “As soon as the center is set up, two remaining hostages – Osipyan and Yeghiazaryan – would be released.”
It has been the seventh day since a group of armed men stormed into a capital city Yerevan police station.