SYUNIK SHOOTOUT: WOUNDED COLONEL IS IN GRAVE CONDITION

06:19 PM | TODAY | POLITICS

Artsrun Hovhannisyan, Spokesman for Armenia’s Minister of Defense, has
written on his Facebook account more details on Saturday’s shootout
in Goris, a city in southern Syunik province. Hovhannisyan says that
Colonel Artak Budaghyan, one of the two men injured in the gunfight,
had undergone a second surgery, with doctors removing one more bullet
from his body. Budaghyan’s condition is described as grave. A new
surgical intervention is not excluded, writes the Ministry official.

Avetik (Avo) Budaghyan, a former mayoral candidate in Goris, was
killed in the result of Saturday’s shooting outside the house of
Syunik Governor Surik Khachatryan. Nikolay Abrahamyan, a relative
and bodyguard of Surik Khachatryan, and Avo Budaghyan’s brother Artak
Budaghyan, a commander at a military unit in Karabakh, were wounded
in the gunfight. Syunik governor’s son Tigran Khachatryan and his
bodyguard Zarzand Nikoghosyan were arrested today in relation to the
murder of Avo Budaghyan.