YEREVAN. – Colonel Artak Budaghyan, who was wounded in a shootout near the house of Armenia’s former Syunik regional governor, will be discharged from hospital on Thursday. 

MOD Central Garrison Military Hospital Director Aram Asaturyan told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.  

He noted that Budaghyan’s health condition is normal. Incidentally, the Central Military Medical Commission issued a 20-day post-treatment leave of absence to the officer.  

Budaghyan will spend his leave of absence in Goris city, his relatives told Armenian News-NEWS.am; they are heading back to Goris on Thursday. 

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, shots were fired nearby Syunik governor Suren Khachatryan’s home in Goris city, on June 2 at around 12:10am. As a result, one person was killed and two others sustained gunshot wounds and were taken to Goris hospital. The person who died was Avo Budaghyan, the former Goris mayoral candidate. The wounded were Budaghyan’s brother Artak, and Nikolay Abrahamyan, a relative and bodyguard of Khachatryan. Subsequently, the wounded were transferred to capital city Yerevan.

A criminal case is launched on charges of murder and illegal carrying, possession, and use of arms and ammunition. The Military Prosecutor’s Office is conducting the investigation.

Two people are arrested in connection with this incident. One of them is the Syunik regional governor’s son, Tigran Khachatryan, 19, and the other is the governor’s bodyguard, Zarzand Nikoghosyan.  

Pursuant to his petition, Suren Khachatryan was relieved of his duties as Governor of Syunik Region.