STEPANAKERT. – Military serviceman Albert Safaryan, 19, sustained a fatal gunshot wound on Friday at around 8:40pm.

The soldier was mortally wounded in the line of duty of a protection area of a Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army unit, which is stationed in a northerly direction.

An investigation is underway to find out the details of the incident, reported the NKR Ministry of Defense press service.