Two people who crawled from under barbed wire at Armenia border checkpoint are detained

Two people who crawled from under barbed wire at Armenia’s border checkpoint Armavir Province have been detained.

Yesterday, at about 5:30pm, police received a call from the Russian border guard military unit that they had found two persons without documents at the Yervandashat-Bagaran precinct, who reported that they were locals, shamshyan.com reported.

Armavir Province residents Igor B., 25, Mkhitar P., 27, were taken to a police station from the area monitored by the border guards in the Yervandashat administrative district.

Igor B. had a machine gun, and Mkhitar P. had a gun with several bullets.

It turned out that the same day at about 4:30pm they entered a protected area of the restricted border zone by crawling from under the barbed wire running across Yervandashat to hunt. They were detected at the exact spot, and with their weapons.

Police are preparing a report on the case.

A number of forensic examinations have been appointed.

Igor B. and Mkhitar P. are detained.