Armenian police capture four gunmen

Armenian police Wednesday captured four gunmen of a heavily-armed group who took over a police station here on July 17, according to Armenpress.

The four gunmen were captured in the early morning Wednesday after exchanging gunfire with the security forces.

Two of them, including one of its leaders, Pavel Manukyan, were wounded during the exchange of gunfire and have been moved to a local hospital.

The armed men have barricaded themselves in a police station in Armenia's capital, refusing to lay down their weapons even after releasing all the hostages they had held after storming the police station.

The armed group demanded the release of radical opposition leader Jirair Sefilian, who was arrested in June on suspicions of organizing a military overthrow of the government.

Meanwhile, they also asked the country's President Serzh Sargsyan to resign.

The group, consisting of dozens of gunmen, stormed a police station in Khorenatsi Street in Yerevan on July 17, during which one policeman was killed, while several others were wounded.

The gunmen took several hostages but released them over the weekend.

Currently, the gunmen remain in a standoff with police and they reportedly took four fresh hostages on Wednesday, including two doctors of a medical team that they requested after a shootout with authorities. Endi