21-year-old Armenian contract serviceman Vardan Vardanyan was fatally wounded at around 9 am on December 11 by fire from the Azerbaijani side at a military unit of the Nagorno Karabakh (NKR) Defense Army deployed in the Eastern direction of the line of contact between NKR and Azerbaijani forces, the NKR defense ministry said Friday.
Karabakh military authorities' statement gave no further details about the incident.