Armed Group Arrested by NSS Was ‘Plotting Assassinations’

Armenia’s National Security Service officers empty arms after a raid on a house in suburban Yerevan Wednesday

YEREVAN—An armed group that was arrested Wednesday by the National Security Service of Armenia was plotting assassinations, according agency’s deputy chief Mikael Hambarstumyan who detailed some of the agency’s findings during a press conference on Friday.

Armenian security forces arrested 10 people on Wednesday and said they have found a big weapons cache when the raided a house in Yerevan’s North Nork district, The NSS accused the group of “particularly grave crimes,â€