14:25, 6 January 2016

One person killed in shootout in restaurant in Armenia

As reported today by the Armenian police, in a shootout in the restaurant "Musaler", owned by Armenian MP Grant Grigoryan, the 22-year-old Aram Karapetyan and the 35-year-old Armen Khlgatyan received gunshot wounds.

Aram Karapetyan died at the scene of the incident.

Armen Khlgatyan, the head of the Taronik community, was taken to the Yerevan Clinical Complex "Geratsi" No. 1 with a wound in his left thigh.

"His health condition is satisfactory now; he is in the intensive care ward; his life is out of danger," said his wife; but did not report any other details of the incident, noting that she was not aware of what had happened, the "Tert.am" reports.

The police report that the suspects of shooting are established as Arthur Babayan, born in 1984, Armen Paravyan, born in 1973, and Khoren Khachikyan, born in 1984. Two other participant of the conflict in the restaurant are being established.