A holdup case at a petrol station
In the evening on December 18, at 04:10, a wake-up call was received at Nor-Norq police division, informing that an unknown man approached to the petrol station on Rubinyants street with a petrol container in his hands and demanded money from the 25-year-old and 28-year-old service station attendants, under the threat to burn them unless his demand is satisfied.
Meeting their refusal the stranger poured the petrol out of the bottle onto the floor of the petrol station back office and the service station attendants and burned them.
At 05:45 the service station attendants were taken to Yerevan burn clinic with burns.
A criminal case under the points 1, 5, 8 of the part 2 of the article 34-104 and the point 1 of the article 175 of the RA criminal code is initiated on the fact at Nor-Nork police division.
Operational-search and investigation measures on identifying the criminal and his detection are being undertaken.
A preliminary investigation is underway.
Note: Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a manner prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia and found guilty by a court decision that has entered into legal force.