YEREVAN. – It has become apparent that the 20-year-old soldier of a Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) border military unit who died on Sunday was killed by a fellow serviceman. 

According to preliminary data, violating the rules on handling the machine gun assigned to him, conscript Gor Alaverdyan of an NKR military unit fired shots at and wounded, at the military position on Sunday at around 7:20 p.m., the same military unit’s conscript Marat Dimaksyan, MOD informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Dimaksyan died en route to military hospital at around 9 p.m. 

A criminal case is launched into the incident, and an investigation is underway.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, NKR Defense Army conscript Marat Dimaksyan, 20, received a fatal gunshot wound at a military position at the line of contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces.