YEREVAN.- Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan visited on Monday  the family of Vahe Avetyan, a military doctor who died in brutal beating in Harsnaqar restaurant.

The Minister extended condolences to the family, MOD spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Earlier the agency has informed that the incident had occurred at the restaurant on June 17, where several military doctors including Edgar Mikoyan, Arkadi Aghajanyan, Garik Soghomonyan, Artak Bayadyan and Vahe Avetyan were brutally beaten by the restaurant employees. Vahe Avetyan died in hospital on June 29.

Criminal case was instigated. Police detained six people. The owner of Harsnaqar restaurant is high-ranking Armenian ruling party MP, head of Armenian Football Federation and businessman Ruben Hayrapetyan.