YEREVAN. – Minister of Defense of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan on Tuesday met, in Gyumri city, with Army General Arkady Bakhin, the Deputy Defense Minister of Russia.

Ohanyan met with Bakhin to discuss the circumstances of Monday’s murder in Gyumri, the Armenian defense minister’s press secretary, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“The meeting of the minister and General Bakhin is over, and we will announce later what issues were discussed,” Hovhannisyan added.

Six members of a family were shot dead and a six-month-old baby was wounded in a house in Gyumri on Monday. Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the city’s Russian 102nd Military Base, is the main suspect in this crime. Permyakov was apprehended near the Armenian-Turkish border, in the vicinity of Armenia’s Bayandur village.