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The Argavand intersection is currently closed by a large number of police forces that aren’t permitting the move of relatives transporting the coffin of the soldier who died on January 30 to Yerevan.

The deceased serviceman’s relatives want to transfer the body of the serviceman to the Ministry of Defense of Armenia.

Minister of Defense of Armenia Davit Tonoyan and deputy of the My Step faction of the National Assembly of Armenia and Chair of the Standing Committee on Defense and Security Andranik Kocharyan are currently negotiating with the relatives.

The relatives of the serviceman who died on January 30 in the shooting range of a military unit in Artsakh don’t believe the official version of the serviceman’s death (suicide).

The relatives told Armenian News-NEWS.am that the soldier, Vahram was murdered. Vahram was enlisted six months ago and was serving in Artsakh. He died on January 30 at around 1:15 p.m. The Investigative Committee of Armenia declared that the soldier had shot his chest with the AKM type of gun attached to him and had been transferred to a military hospital with firearm injuries, and he was pronounced dead at 2 p.m. The first garrison investigative division has instituted a criminal case in relation to the incident, and preliminary investigation is underway.

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