Speaking to RFE/RL’s Armenian service, one of the residents of the Sari Tagh neighborhood said that a police stun grenade had fallen on her house. Her three children, all under 7 years old, were injured as a result of the explosion. Two of the kids have been admitted to the intensive care unit of the Nor Nork medical center with severe injuries.
Meanwhile, Davit Sanasaryan, an opposition politician with the Heritage Party, said on his Facebook page that he, along with a number of other wounded, was at the Surb Grigor Lusavorich Medical Center in Yerevan`s Nor Nork district. "People`s eyes have popped out of their sockets, [there are] others with broken arms and legs. My dad has a broken elbow," Sanasaryan wrote.
He also published a photo of a young man named Sayat with a seemingly severe damage to his eye. It is reported that doctors had removed the damaged eye of 17 years old boy.
Protester Tamara Manukyan sustained severe burns on different parts of her body during the police’s violent dispersal late on Friday of hundreds of sympathizers of the armed group occupying a police station in Yerevan’s Erebuni district.
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Armenia`s Health Ministry reports that, the police excessive violence has left at least 60 people, including children, injured; dozens have forcibly been detained.
