Mayor Suren Grigoryan of Stepanakert has canceled the festive events that were to be held to celebrate the day of the capital city of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR; Artsakh), reported Artsakhpress.

Grigoryan on Saturday convened an emergency meeting, and with respect to canceling these festivities due to Friday’s incident on the Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces.

Stepanakert Deputy Mayor Armen Hakobyan informed that the scheduled festive events will not take place.

Press service of the NKR Defense Army reported earlier that the Azerbaijani Armed Forces shelled at one of the northeastern protection areas of the NKR Defense Army unit on Friday at about 5:30pm. The fire was opened from Turkish-made reactive rocket propelled howitzers (TR-107).

Consequently, NKR Defense Army soldiers Norayr Khachatryan (born in 1995), Robert Mkrtchyan (born in 1995), Harut Hakobyan (born in 1997), and Karen Shahinyan (born in 1997) died from shrapnel wounds. There are wounded, too.

To note, Norayr Khachatryan was from Stepanakert.