This morning, at around 10:00 a.m., a subversive group of the Azerbaijani armed forces targeted and fired a shift car with employees of the Passport and Visa Department of the Police Service in the area called Khaypalu. Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) reports this.
Three police officers were killed as a result of the subversive penetration: Lieutenant-Colonel Armen Mayor Babayan Major David Valeri Daniyelian Lieutenant Ararat Telman Gasparian.
Another serviceman, Lieutenant David Ashot Hovsepian, was injured in the chest by a gunshot fire and is now in the Republican Medical Center. The Ministry of Internal Affairs shares the grief of the loss of the deceased police officers and extends its condolences to their families.