Fragging leaves senior lieutenant dead at Armenian military base

Armenpress 11:48, 12 February, 2019

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 12, ARMENPRESS. A senior lieutenant of the Armenian armed forces has been gunned down by one of his co-servicemen while on duty at a military base late afternoon February 11 in what authorities suspect to be murder.

The Investigative Committee said in a news release that the perpetrator, a private, intentionally fired his machine gun at senior Lieutenant Mesrop Grigoryan with intent to kill.  Grigoryan was killed instantly.

The private has been arrested and a criminal case has been launched.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan



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