On February 12, a soldier of NKR army Torgom Sarukhanyan committed a suicide in a military unit in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh. Sarukhanyan inflicted a gunshot wound, a senior representative of Armenian Defense Ministry Mery Sargsyan informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. According to her, criminal proceedings were instituted on charges of incitement to suicide (Article 110, Armenian Criminal Code).

The accident causes are being clarified.

Sarukhanyan was drafted from Gyumri military commissariat and served for 1.5 years.