An Armenian soldier was killed as a result of ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani side on Friday in the north-eastern direction of the line of contact between the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Grigor Shakhkanyan (born in 1991) was killed in an incident, press service of the NKR defense army informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

It is the second incident registered within recent two days. Yesterday Hovhannes Avdalyan (born in 1991), a conscript soldier of the NKR Defense Army, was injured in ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani side.