Syunik shootout: Wounded colonel is in grave condition
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.
