The Investigative Committee of Armenia declined to comment on the Azerbaijani serviceman who crossed into Armenia.

“The NSS [i.e. the National Security Service of Armenia] has already noted the proceeding in its statement, we are not commenting further,” the Investigative Committee said.

Earlier, Armenian News-NEWS.am reported that an incident occurred today in Shaki village of the Sisian enlarged community of Armenia’s Syunik Province, Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned.

Residents of Sisian are telling Armenian News-NEWS.am that according to their information, an Azerbaijani has crossed the border for four to five days, but they have not been able to find him.

And today, a young Shaki resident of girl was shot in the leg yet under unknown circumstances.

“The girl’s name is Ani, she is a resident of Shaki, it’s good that the wound is in the leg. The entire troops are in Shaki at the moment, people are terrified, intimidated,” a resident of Shaki told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

And the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia had issued a statement in this regard and noted that the State Security Service of Azerbaijan on Tuesday informed the NSS that a serviceman of an Azerbaijani military unit had left his place of military service under unknown circumstances.

It was not ruled out that he could have illegally crossed the border of Armenia.

After that, the respective authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan carried out search operations.

An at 14:15 on Thursday, 112 emergency hotline of Armenia received a call that an Armenian citizen had been shot in the leg in Shaki village of Syunik Province.

Armenian police teams left for the scene.

Measures have been taken to investigate the incident.

It turned out that this crime was committed by the aforesaid Azerbaijani serviceman, who has been arrested.

The details of the incident have also been presented to the Azerbaijani side.

The Investigative Committee of Armenia has initiated criminal proceedings in connection with this incident.