Military serviceman Erik Grigoryan, who died as a result of an infiltration attempt by Azerbaijan, on Monday was laid to rest with a military order.
Mayor Vahan Ghazaryan of Shaki village, where Grigoryan was from in the Syunik Province of Armenia, told Armenian News-NEWS.am that military servicemen, acquaintances, and relatives attended the funeral.
The fallen soldier was interred at the Karabakh War cemetery in Sisian town, in the Syunik Province.
As reported earlier, Azerbaijan had launched an intelligence-gathering and sabotage infiltration attempt, on December 4, in a northeasterly direction (Talish) of the Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces.
Vanguard units of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army, however, had detected this advance by the special units of the Azerbaijan army, and they had pushed them back to their starting positions, also causing them casualties.
Unfortunately, NKR Defense Army serviceman Erik Grigoryan (born in 1995) had sustained a fatal gunshot wound during the skirmish.