YEREVAN. – A conscript is detained in connection with the death of Yurik Nersisyan, a soldier who was serving at a military unit in Mataghis, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). 

Along the lines of the criminal case launched into Wednesday’s death of Lance Corporal Yurik Nersisyan, a conscript at a military unit in NKR, a conscript was arrested on Friday. Investigation is continuing, Armenian MOD Investigation Service informed.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, while carrying out duty at a military position of Martakert unit of NKR Defense Army, another conscript, Vladimir Asatryan, 19, had died on October 9 by the gun fastened to him. The conscript was from Kharberd village of Armenia’s Ararat Region.

Also, another soldier, by the name of Aram Melkonyan, had lost his life in Armenia’s Ijevan city on October 13.

MOD had launched a criminal case, with regards to both deaths, on charges of causing suicide.