A serviceman of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Defense Army was fatally wounded in a northern military unit on Friday night, amid intensive ceasefire violations incited by Azerbaijan’s armed forces.
The escalation increased on the frontline after 7:30 Yerevan time as the adversary released fire from weapons of different calibers, grenade- and mine-launchers in violation of the recently agreed verbal truce.
The deceased serviceman is reported to be Armen H Martirosyan, 20.
A probe has been launched into the incident.
In its official statement released Thursday morning, the Ministry shares the heavy grief of the loss, extending its solidarity to the family and fellow servicemen of the deceased.
The Ministry says that its Defense Army’s frontline military units managed to silence the adversary thanks to adequate retaliatory operations.
Greece to question Syrian over Turkey-bound bullet haul
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Agence France-Presse
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Greek investigators were to question May 25 a Syrian caught trying to sneak tens of thousands of bullets into Turkey, a police source said.
The 28-year-old man was detained over the weekend at the Kipi customs post in Evros, the northernmost part of Greece, after police found parcels of bullets concealed in special caches in his car.
The authorities said they were not ruling out the possibility that the ammunition was destined to rebels of the Free Syrian Army.
The suspect’s vehicle had Austrian registration plates but he was carrying a fake British driving license, police said.
Evros is a central hub on the route connecting Europe and Asia, where smugglers routinely attempt to pass guns, drugs and migrants, from or into Turkey, which shares 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) of border with Iraq and Syria.