YEREVAN. – The explosive, which was detonated under a bridge on the Yerevan-Sevan motorway, was remote-controlled. The Police of Armenia told this to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

They added that on Friday at about 12:20pm, police received a call that an explosion had occurred on the aforesaid highway, and as a result, a Ranger Rover and Nissan Patrol, which were traveling on that motorway at the time, were damaged.

Police found out that the explosive which was placed beneath the bridge was remote-controlled from an inactive restaurant complex near the scene of the incident. The equipment for remote-controlling this blast was found in a room of this building.

A criminal case was launched in connection with the incident, and on charges of attempted murder.

A few hours after the incident, police found three men in capital city Yerevan, detained them on reasonable suspicion, and then arrested them.

An investigation is still in progress.

As reported earlier, according to reports, the aforesaid Range Rover belongs to former MP, businessman Melik Manukyan, a.k.a. Shshi Melo.

A glass container manufacturing plant belonging to Manukyan is located in the vicinity.

There were no casualties and injuries in the incident.