A considerable increase in tension was recorded along the Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces, from late Thursday night to early Friday morning.

During this time the Azerbaijani armed forces fired around 1,500 shots at the Armenian military positions, and by way of rifle weaponry.

And on Friday at around 3:55am, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Defense Army military serviceman Simon Chavrshyan (born in 1996) sustained a fatal gunshot wound at the protection area of a Defense Army unit, and as a result of the shot fired by the adversary.

An investigation is underway to find out the details of the incident.