YEREVAN. - The wake for “Food Provider” Artur Sargsyan has kicked off in San Lazzarro funeral parlor in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia (photos).

He will be interred in Shahumyan cemetery on Wednesday.

Artur Sargsyan, a.k.a. the Food Provider, died on March 16 at “Armenia” Medical Center, in Yerevan.

He was charged with aiding the Sasna Tsrer armed group, which had taken over a police patrol regiment building in Yerevan, taken hostages, but later surrendered, in July 2016. 

On July 26, Artur Sargsyan had broken through a police cordon with a vehicle loaded with food, and delivered food to the Sasna Tsrer gunmen.