YEREVAN, April 14 (Reuters) - A tenth person has died of wounds sustained when protesters clashed with police in the Armenian capital last month, a health ministry spokeswoman said on Monday.

The 29-year-old man's death on Friday brings to eight the number of protesters killed in street battles on March 1 between demonstrators armed with iron bars and stones and police wielding batons and firing rubber bullets.

Two members of security forces also died. The health ministry spokeswoman said the protester had died from wounds to his back or neck from a heavy object.

She said 265 people were injured in the fighting and three more protesters were still in a serious condition in hospital.

On Saturday the police said a member of the security forces had also died on Friday from a gunshot wound to the neck sustained during the March clashes.

Security forces accused demonstrators of carrying and using firearms. The demonstrators, who accuse President Serzh Sarksyan of fixing a Feb. 19 election, have denied this. (Reporting by Hasmik Mkrtchyan; Writing by James Kilner in Moscow; Editing by Michael Winfrey)

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