Artsakh civilian killed by Azerbaijani sniper fire

A civilian was killed on Saturday in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) by a sniper of the Azerbaijani army, Hunan Tadevosyan, the spokesman of the Artsakh State Service of Emergency Situations, told News.am.

He noted that at 1:15pm, the Martakert regional police department reported that Aram Tepnunts (born in 1966), a resident of Martakert town, was fatally wounded at the pomegranate orchard near the town by a sniper shot fired by the Azerbaijani forces.

Investigators are working at the scene.

The information has been passed to the Russian peacekeepers in Artsakh.