An Armenian army officer was arrested early on Sunday after reportedly threatening to blow up an expensive restaurant in Yerevan where one of his colleagues was beaten to death by security guards working for an influential government-linked businessman.
The arrest came just hours after hundreds of people held a candlelight vigil there for Major Vahe Avetian, a 35-year-old military doctor who died on Friday of severe wounds sustained in the June 17 assault. Two other army medics were also injured in the incident in still unclear circumstances.
News reports said that Lieutenant-Colonel Vartan Samvelian, a deputy commander of an Armenian army regiment stationed in Yerevan, burst into the Hrasnakar restaurant and threatened to set off an explosive device in his bag in the early hours of Sunday.
Armenian News
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