Samvel Hakobyan - a solider, who was hospitalized with heavy gunshot wound in the head ahwn repelling Azerbaijan's sabotage attack on March 19 - passed away today, on March 26.
According to the NKR Defense Army press office, Samvel Hakobyan died at the Stepanakert hospital at 9:40am.
"The NKR Defense Army shares the pain of Hakobyan's family and extends its condolences to his relatives and friends," the defense department said in a statement.
To recall, on March 19 morning, the Azeri special forces attacked one of the combat positions of the Nagorno- Karabakh Defense Army. The press service of the NKR Defense Army reports that as a result of two-hour operations, the Armenian forces were able to repel the enemy's attack. When repelling the Azeri attack, three NKR Defense Army servicemen heroically died: Hakob G. Khachatryan (born in 1996), Eduard G. Hayrapetyan (born in 1995) and Arshak K. Harutyunyan (born in 1995). Four more servicemen were wounded, with two of them hospitalized in Yerevan.