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Fourteen people hospitalized after clashes outside Russian Consulate in Gyumri (video)

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Fourteen people, including nine civilians and five policemen were hospitalized after Thursday’s clashes between angered protesters and riot police outside the Russian Consulate in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri. People were protesting for the second day against the killing of a local family reportedly committed by Russian soldier Valery Permyakov who had served at the Russian base before the killings. Civilians had minor injuries and were discharged from hospital after receiving medical care. Doctors say that the police officers are in serious condition; they have injuries to the head. One policeman was diagnosed with a skull fracture and is mow in the intensive care. reports Tsayg.am. Valery Permyakov, 19, was detained by Russian border guards on Monday after alleging killing six members of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri and wounding a six-month-old infant on the same day. Seryozha Avetisyan, his wife Hasmik, daughter Aida, son Armen, daughter-in-law Araksya, and two-year-old granddaughter Hasmik, were found killed, when a relative-neighbor came to the house for morning coffee. The six-month-old infant, the only survivor of the brutal murder, was hospitalized with severe stab wounds in his chest. Permyakov reportedly confessed to the mass murder. He is now kept under arrest at the Russian military base in Gyumri and has been charged with murder and desertion. The protesters demand that demand that the Permyakov be handed over to Armenian law-enforcement authorities.