A bandit attack took place in Yerevan today.

According to Shamshyan.com, at around 5 p.m. two masked persons — one with a knife and the other with an object similar to a weapon — entered HayPost CJSC 0065 unit (located at 27 Sebastia Street in Yerevan) and plundered money from an employee after threatening with a knife and weapon and fled the scene.

Officers of the Criminal Intelligence Unit of Yerevan Police Department and the Malatia-Sebastia Police Department’s operational group arrived at the scene.

The investigators of the investigative group of the Malatia-Sebastia Administrative District of the Yerevan Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Armenia are inspecting the scene. The expert criminologists of the Expert Criminology Department of the Police are also on the spot. The officers are trying to find out how much money was plundered.