Two soldiers detained in Armenia on suspicion of reducing serviceman to suicide

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  • 11 August, 2023
  • 13:50
Two soldiers detained in Armenia on suspicion of reducing serviceman to suicide

Two soldiers were detained in the case of the death of a conscript serviceman in Armenia, the country's Investigative Committee said, Report informs via Sputnik-Armenia.

Earlier, the Defense Ministry reported that on August 10, a serviceman of one of the military units of the Ministry of Defense, Zhora Karapetyan, received a wound incompatible with life.

The Investigative Committee notes that on August 10, at about 18:50, Karapetyan shot himself in the head with a machine gun belonging to another soldier. He was admitted to the Ararat City Hospital, then to the military hospital in Yerevan. Karapetyan died in the morning of August 11.