On 16 October at 8:30pm, four officers of the Armenian Defense Ministry got serious wounds in a mine blast while on mission near the army unit located on the northeastern border of Armenia, the press-service of the Defense Ministry told ArmInfo.
Commander of an engineer squadron, captain Gevorg Mnatsakanyan was killed in the blast. The other three officers, Senior Lieutenant Garush Hambartsoumyan, solider Narek Hakobyan, and contract officer Edgar Haroutiunyan were hospitalized. Investigation is underway.