YEREVAN. – The Investigative Committee of Armenia has filed a criminal case into an accident that caused the death a military serviceman.  

According to provisional data, a bulldozer, which belongs to a military unit of the Ministry of Defense (MOD), rolled into a gorge, on Wednesday at around 3pm, while clearing the road that leads to the military position of this unit, the Committee informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

As a result, soldiers Garegin Minasyan, Armen Pukha, and Vruyr Nersisyan—who were inside the bulldozer—sustained injuries.

Minasyan died en route to the MOD Gegharkunik Garrison Military Hospital.

On the same day, Pukha and Nersisyan were transferred to the MOD Central Clinical Military Hospital in capital city Yerevan.

An investigation is underway into the aforementioned criminal case.