YEREVAN. – At around 9:40pm on Friday, Private Artur Ghazaryan (born in 2001), a conscript of the Armed Forces of Armenia, received a fatal gunshot wound while on duty at his military unit, and by a shot fired carelessly by a fellow serviceman due to violating the rules of handling weapons. Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned about this from the Ministry of Defense.
An investigation is underway.
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