YEREVAN. – If during previous years incidents occurred with pupils during school graduation parties, this year they occurred with parents. Today such an incident happened at Yerevan city high school number 79. Armenian News-NEWS.am was informed that on Friday morning after the school graduation party shootings occurred in the school yard which caused panic.

Some minutes later police officers arrived at the school and it came out that one of the parents was so excited about the party that he decided to make a surprise for the pupils and fire in the sky with a gun which was in his car. Later it came out that the gun belonged to the graduate’s uncle.

The incident was confirmed by the police.

Our correspondent was told that the gun has been confiscated and the shooter detained.