GYUMRI. – The memorial service for the slain family from Gyumri will be held on Wednesday, chairman of Asbarez journalists' club Levon Barseghyan said.

Six members of the Avetisyan family were shot dead and the six-month-old baby was wounded in their house in Gyumri on Monday. Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the city’s Russian 102nd Military Base, is the main suspect in this crime. Permyakov was apprehended near the Armenian-Turkish border, in the vicinity of Armenia’s Bayandur village.

The residents of Armenia’s Gyumri city on Tuesday placed flowers near the gate of the Avetisyan family home.