YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Police had received information, on July 6 at 8:30pm, notifying that Garik Hakobyan (born in 1989) was hospitalized for a skull fracture.  

Hakobyan’s friend, Varuzhan M. (born in 1985), had told the police officers, which were dispatched to the scene, that Hakobyan had fallen down while adjusting the antenna at the rooftop of his home, and sustained an injury on the same day at around 4pm, the Police news department informs.     

Hakobyan had died in hospital on July 12.

But while preparing a police report on his death, it was found out that, on July 6, Hakobyan, Varuzhan M., and Arayik M. (born in 1971) had gone to the storeroom of Yeghegnut forestry, where Varuzhan M. had cut down an oak tree and sliced it into pieces with a chainsaw. Subsequently, and while transporting this timber through a steep slope, Garik Hakobyan had fallen down with the timber, hit the rocks with his head, and sustained an injury.           

The circumstances of the incident are being ascertained, and an investigation is launched.