The press service of the Defense Ministry of Armenia reports that on February 12, 2020, at around 11:30, army conscripts Tigran Manvelyan and Tigran Mkhoyan both born in 2000, died of a weapon injury inflicted upon them in unclarified circumstances.<\/p>\n
Investigation is underway to find out the circumstances of their death.<\/p>\n
This is the 10th case of military servicemen dying in non-combat circumstances in the 40 days since the beginning of 2020.<\/p>\n
On January 1st, conscript Artyom Ghazaryan was reported dead in a military unit in North-South of Armenia due to complications of an illness.<\/p>\n
On January 6, contract serviceman Gegham Khachatryan was reported dead from an injury from a weapon, allegedly in an act of suicide on the frontline.<\/p>\n
On January 21, contract serviceman Artur Nalbandyan born in 1980 was reported dead due to an accident (unspecified) during military guarding.<\/p>\n
On January 30 conscript Vahram Avagyan born in 2000 was reported dead from a weapon injury in a military training unit. Fellow servicemen were arrested, criminal investigation is underway.<\/p>\n
On February 7, three contractual servicemen, Karapet Nazaryan, Tigran Arzumanyan, Nver Shahbazyan\u00a0 fell victim to an avalanche, another servant, Hamlet Mirzoyan was rescued.<\/p>\n
On February 9, conscript Valery Petrosyan was reported dead from sudden natural causes.<\/p>\n
Besides these cases of deaths, 5 cases of serious injuries were also reported for the first 40 days of 2020, of which 3 were severe injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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