YEREVAN. - A criminal case has been launched in the third garrison unit of Armenia's General Military Investigative Department into the death of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army serviceman Gor Gareginyan, who died from the shot fired from the Azerbaijani side on Monday.

The case was launched on charges of murder on the ground of national, racial or religious intolerance.

Gor Gareginyan (born in 1997) was killed at 11p.m. on Monday in the northeastern direction of the line of contact between the Azerbaijani and Karabakh armed forces