SSS Employees Enter the Cathedral, Lock the Door: Situation Remains Tense

Employees of the National Security Service (SSS) have entered the Cathedral. Journalists have been removed from the area, and the door has been locked from the inside while operations are underway. Meanwhile, the situation outside the cathedral remains extremely tense.

Clerics were attempting to prevent the security forces from entering the cathedral area, resulting in a scuffle between the clerics and the security personnel.

As reported, law enforcement officials are currently inside the Mother See, where the head of the Shirak Diocese, Mikael Azhapanyan, is located. It is worth noting that he was in the courtyard of the Mother See with numerous clergy members and Catholicos Garegin II.