At around 10 p.m. on Monday, a reserve sergeant, Mkrtich Hovakimyan, born in 1978, received a fatal gunshot wound at a military outpost located in a southeasterly direction of Armenia, and according to preliminary data, as a result of violation of the rules of organization of military service, according to the Armenian Ministry of Defense, APA reports citing news.am.
An investigation is underway to fully find out the circumstances behind this incident.