STEPANAKERT. – On Wednesday at 4pm, in accordance with the arrangement reached between the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) and Azerbaijan through the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Office of the Personal Representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Chairperson-in-Office, the Azerbaijani side handed over the body of a fallen Armenian military serviceman, near Bash Karvend settlement.

Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned the aforesaid from the NKR State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons.

The commission, however, does not yet announce the name of this casualty. To confirm the identity of this fallen soldier, his body will be shown to his relatives. Subsequently, the body will be sent for examination to determine the cause of death.

As reported earlier, Artsakh authorities have announced that Captain Argishti Gaboyan is considered missing, ever since the hostilities which Azerbaijan had unleashed in early April.