QASHATAGH. – A dispute occurred between VAZ driver and Khor Virap resident of Armenia’s Ararat region Harutyun Hovakimyan and track drivers Ashot Baghdasaryan and Edgar Poghosyan over not yielding the way on the road at 4.00 p.m. in Qashatagh district in Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] on Thursday.

During the dispute Hovakimyan stabbed the other two drivers, as a result of which Baghdasaryan died on the way to hospital, while Poghosyan is hospitalized, police press service reports.

Hovakiyan afterwards fled the site of the accident. However, he was detained in Armenia’s Goris police department. Circumstances are being clarified.