STEPANAKERT. – The serviceman, who sustained a gunshot wound at a Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Defense Army position on October 7, is being transferred from the NKR capital city Stepanakert Military Hospital to Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan.  

The hospital staff informed about the abovementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am, and added that Hayk Hambardzumyan, 20, is being transported to Yerevan by a helicopter.

The hospital staff, however, did not provide details on what kind of injuries the soldier had sustained. 

Hambardzumyan was wounded at a protection area of an NKR Defense Army unit located in a southerly direction of the line of contact, and as a result of the shots fired by the Azerbaijani armed forces.

The Defense Army had informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that an investigation is underway to find out the details of this incident.