Syunik Governor answers journalist's questions
"If someone attacked your house, what would you do? You are a girl, and I ask you how you would behave in that situation. You would protect yourself, wouldn't you? Yes, a terrible thing has happened, a young man was killed... It is a very painful thing... but the incident is even more deplorable," Syunik Governor Surik Khachatryan said on June 5 in reply to 168.am.
Khachatryan was talking to several people in open-air café outside the Armenia Marriott hotel in Yerevan when he was spotted by journalist. The governor agreed to answer her questions in case she turned off the camera.
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Avetik Budaghyan, a former mayoral candidate in Goris, was killed in the result of Saturday's shootout outside the house of Syunik Governor Surik Khachatryan. Nikolay Abrahamyan, a relative and bodyguard of Surik Khachatryan, and Artak Budaghyan, the brother of Avetik Budaghyan and 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 on Monday in connection with Budaghyan's murder.
