{"id":274135,"date":"2016-07-29T21:45:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=274135"},"modified":"2016-07-29T21:58:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:58:46","slug":"armenian-gunman-shot-by-police-sniper-armed-group-leader-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/07\/29\/armenian-gunman-shot-by-police-sniper-armed-group-leader-claims.html","title":{"rendered":"More Gunmen Wounded in Yerevan; Gunfire and Explosions on Seized Territory (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<em><strong>As of 9:40 pm,&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>sounds of&nbsp;explosions and gunfire were coming from the territory of the seized police station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em><strong>7:40 pm<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;Residents of neighboring buildings have told our correspondent that gunfight has once again broke out between the armed group and law enforcement officers. Police spokesperson Ashot Aharonyan, for his part, wrote on his Facebook page that two more gunmen &ndash; Artur Melkonyan and Armen Lambaryan &ndash; were injured and taken to a hospital.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs of 7:30 pm, a large number of police officers in full riot gear had gathered at the cordoned off area.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/policeman1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"policeman1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-274142\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/policeman1.jpg\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/policeman1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/policeman1-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em><strong>5:30 pm<\/strong><\/em> Arayik Khandoyan, one of the gunmen who&rsquo;ve been occupying a Yerevan police station since July 17, has been wounded, according to a statement posted on the armed group&rsquo;s Facebook page.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpeaking to 1in.am, one of the group&rsquo;s leaders, Varuzhan Avetisyan, claimed that Khandoyan was shot by a police sniper as he went to check out a drone flying over the seized police station. Avetisyan added that he was still unsure whether the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/07\/27\/news-about-yerevan-gunmen-taking-medics-hostage-is-%E2%80%98police-disinformation%E2%80%99-oppositionist-claims.html\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\">ambulance crew<\/span><\/a><\/strong> inside the building would be able to treat the injured.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;If [authorities] continue in this fashion, then we&rsquo;ll have to use weapons for self-defense,&rdquo; Avetisyan said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arayik Khandoyan, one of the gunmen who\u2019ve been occupying a Yerevan police station since July 17, has been wounded, according to a statement posted on the armed group\u2019s Facebook page&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}