A protester, who was in one of the tents set up by the opposition in Yerevan’s France Square, passed away in hospital where he was taken to on Thursday, YSMU chief of staff Shushan Danielyan said on social media.

“An unidentified man was taken to Heratsi Hospital Complex from one of the tents in France Square with cardiac arrest,” she wrote.

“All necessary resuscitation measures were immediately taken in the hospital, but unfortunately the doctors’ efforts failed and the man was pronounced dead,” Danielyan said.