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Public utility companies in Yerevan began cleaning the territory where public protests were taking place in support of the armed group that seized the police department, according to Interfax. Earlier, the Armenian police dispersed the demonstrators near the police department seized by the armed group of people in one of districts in Yerevan.

According to preliminary reports, yet unverified, nearly 30 people were detained in the process. Immediately prior to the operation, the police warned the protesters twice about the illegality of the public protest near the area where law enforcement agencies were carrying out their duties for resolving the hostage situation in the seized police department.

The demonstrators also went violent overnight and began harassing the law enforcement officers and attacking the police guarding the area with stones.

According to reports, as a result of the clashes between the demonstrators and the police in Yerevan on Wednesday evening 51 persons, including 28 police officers, were wounded.

The protesters began throwing stones onto the law enforcement officers after receiving no response to their petition whether food had been delivered to the armed group inside the police department.

Later on, the protesters began simultaneously building barricades near Tigran Mets Avenue in Yerevan, as well as adjacent to the area of police operation in Erebuni.

Panorama.am also filmed what was going on  at Khorenatsi before  police dispersed demonstrators.