17:00, 21 November 2011

Nagorno-Karabakh soldier killed on border with Azerbaijan

In the morning on November 20, a shot from the Azerbaijani side killed Migran Margaryan, born in 1992, a regular soldier of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army (NKDA). The Karabakh party believes that he was shot dead by an Azerbaijani sniper.

This is the second soldier of the NKDA, killed in the region over the past two days. In the morning on November 19, a conscript Aren Armenovich Simonyan, born in 1992, perished in the combat position of one of the units. In that case, the Armenian party also announced that the soldier was killed by an Azeri sniper.

According to the press service of the NKDA, Margaryan was killed when on duty at his post in one of the units in the south-eastern direction. "The soldier received a gunshot wound in his chest that was incompatible with life," said the press service of the NKDA.

So far, the Azerbaijani party gave no comments on the above incidents.

Author: Alvard Grigoryan

Source: CK correspondent