YEREVAN. – Criminal case has been launched into killing of four and wounding 16 servicemen in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Four servicemen were killed in shelling of the military outpost by Azerbaijan and 16 others were wounded, Armenia’s investigation committee reported.
Press service of the NKR Defense Army reported earlier that the Azerbaijani Armed Forces shelled at one of the northeastern protection areas of the NKR Defense Army unit on Friday at about 5:30pm. The fire was opened from Turkish-made reactive rocket propelled howitzers (TR-107).
NKR Defense Army soldiers Norayr Khachatryan (born in 1995), Robert Mkrtchyan (born in 1995), Harut Hakobyan (born in 1997), and Karen Shahinyan (born in 1997) died from shrapnel wounds.