YEREVAN. - The 24-year-old soldier with a gunshot wound, and who was taken to hospital in capital city Yerevan Thursday morning, has died.

On Thursday at around 8:20am, the Military Police and a military garrison investigation department received a report that a contract soldier of a military unit in Yerevan had caused a gunshot injury to himself at the arsenal of this military unit, the Investigative Committee of Armenia informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

He was transferred to a hospital.

A criminal case was filed on the incident.

Investigative and judicial actions are taken.

The soldier was pronounced dead at around 11:35am.

The preliminary investigation on the criminal case is still in progress.

Contract soldier with gunshot wound transferred to Yerevan hospital