Terrorist act averted in Yerevan: 10 rendered harmless in Nork-Marash – Shamshyan.com

Officers from the National Security Service’s Department on Combatting Organized Crimes have averted a major armed assault in Yerevan’s Nork-Marash administrative district, Shamshyan.com reports.

Several NSS officers and a task force are now in Street 9, where they have rendered harmless a 10-member band “armed to teeth”.

The website reports that the band possessed up-to-date weapons and explosives which they intended to use for committing a terrorist act in the capital. Three of the band members are reported to be females. Most of them are reportedly foreigners.