THIRTY-ONE, INCLUDING SIX POLICE, INJURED IN RALLY DISPERSAL IN YEREVAN -MINISTRY

Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS
March 1, 2008 Saturday
Russia

Thirty-one people, including six policemen, needed medical aid
following the dispersal of an opposition rally on Freedom Square in
downtown Yerevan on Saturday, the Armenian Health Ministry said.

"Thirty-one people were injured, including six police officers.

They have all sustained injuries of medium severity. The lives of
those injured are out of danger now," the ministry said.

Ten of these people have been hospitalized, and the rest received
outpatient treatment and were discharged, the ministry said.