A 24-year-old Armenian man has died from the stab wounds he sustained during an argument in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The young man, who was born in Armenia, was protecting a girl who was being insulted at a café, informed the Without Format website. And during the ensuing fight, he sustained stab wounds to his neck from an unidentified man with an Armenian exterior, and who was at the café with two friends.

Even though the young Armenian man was able to get to the hospital on his own, he died there several hours later.

The perpetrators had fled the scene on a car. 

A criminal case is launched into the fatal incident.