YEREVAN. – The road between Berd and Ijevan in Tavush Region is still closed for safety reasons, Armenian Defense Ministry representative said.

The road is closed as “measures on restoring security guarantees” and an investigation into the details of the incident is underway, Artsrun Hovhannisyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.  

As informed earlier, Azerbaijan opened fire, on Tuesday at around 1pm-2pm, on the vehicles traveling along the Berd-Ijevan motorway in Armenia’s Tavush Region. Those in civilian and military vehicles, alike, suffered from the shots. As a result of the shots fired upon a military motorcade, conscript, Private Garik Poghosyan (born in 1994) died, informed the Armenian MOD press service. In addition, conscripts, Privates Artur Andranikyan (born in 1994), Arayik Zhamharyan (born in 1994), and Martin Petrosyan (born in 1994) sustained varying degrees of gunshot wounds. The office of Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, was informed of this incident.