New details have been ascertained into the hostage-taking at a billiard bar in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan.
Eyewitnesses said that the man who attacked had put the knife on the young woman’s neck and threatened to kill her. Prior to the police arriving at the scene, there was an argument inside the billiard bar, during which the attacker threw the objects that were inside for a long time outside and broke the glasses of the billiard bar.
The law enforcement officers that arrived at the scene started speaking with him, during which a sniper shot him in the head, and he died on the spot, News.am reported.
As reported earlier, a 30-year-old man, who had taken a young woman hostage at a billiard bar in Yerevan, has been neutralized with a sniper shot. He was taken to hospital already dead.
The 23-year-old woman, who was taken hostage, was taken to Erebouni Medical Center. Doctors say she is in stable condition.