April 8, 2015 - 16:26 AMT
Karabakh soldier dies in Azeri shooting

The Nagorno Karabakh defense army serviceman Levon Mirzoyan, born in 1995, was killed in Azerbaijani shooting on April 7.

The accident took place at one of the military units in the eastern direction of the line of contact, press service of the NKR Defense Ministry informs.

The investigation is under way.

Armenia’s Minister of Defense slammed Azerbaijan for the past days’ cross-border tensions as he met with the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Yerevan on March 27.

Seyran Ohanyan briefed Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk on the ceasefire violations along the Nagorno Karabakh line of contact and the recent act of sabotage, noting that the adversary used higher caliber mortars during the attacks. The minister said he finds that the Azerbaijani leadership alone bears the full burden of responsibility for the escalations and their consequences.

Ambassador Kasprzyk, for his part, promised to invest his best efforts in stabilizing the situation.