Aramayis Voskanyan was shot by the opponent’s sniper.

The NK MoD press service reported, on January 9, 2015 at 9:30p.m. that NK Defense Army soldier, Aramayis Voskanyan (Born 1996) received a mortal gunshot fired by an Azerbijainian soldier. The incident happened at a frontline position near the eastern part of the contact line.

At the request of members of the deceased soldier’s family, Peace Dialogue NGO’s expert criminologist Ruben Martirosyan was present during the autopsy of the soldier. R. Martirosyan said that the forensic examination revealed a penetrating gunshot wound on Aramayis Voskanyan’s forehead.

After being given ballistic information on the direction and the distance of the gunshot and the diameter of the entrance hole (0.8cm) it can be said that the gunshot was fired by the an Azarbaijanian sniper from a SVD model sniper rifle. No other traces of violence were found on the body of the deceased soldier.

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