Mayor Suren Grigoryan of Stepanakert has canceled the festive events that were to be held to celebrate the day of the capital city of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Stepanakert Mayor cancels city day celebrations
STEPANAKERT, SEPTEMBER 26, ARTSAKHPRESS: These festivities are canceled due to Friday’s incident on the Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces.
Stepanakert Deputy Mayor Armen Hakobyan informed Artsakhpress that the scheduled festive events will not take place.
On September 25, at about 17:30, conservation area of one of the Defense Army north-eastern units was shelled by Turkish made TR-107 multiple rocket launchers by the Azerbaijani armed forces which resulted in fatal shrapnel wounds to four Defense Army servicemen: Norayr Khachatryan, 1995, Robert Mkrtchyan, 1995, Harut Hakobyan, 1997, and Karen Shahinyan, 1997.
