EghtesadOnline: Armenian deputy police chief said the armed group that has seized a police station in Armenia's capital of Yerevan since Sunday is holding only five people as hostage s.

EghtesadOnline: Armenia's National Security Service, in a statement published while a hostage taking incident being under way in the capital city of Yerevan, downplayed the alleged coup in the country and rejected such claims as ‘baseless’.