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Six-month baby surviving Gyumri massacre dies in hospital — Armenian health ministry

The death toll of the Gyumri tragedy has risen to seven people
People hold portraits of six dead members of the Avetisyan family during a funeral in the city of Gyumri, Armenia AP Photo/PAN Photo, Vahan Stepanyan
People hold portraits of six dead members of the Avetisyan family during a funeral in the city of Gyumri, Armenia
© AP Photo/PAN Photo, Vahan Stepanyan

YEREVAN, January 19. /TASS/. A six-month baby who survived the massacre in the Armenian town of Gyumri has died in hospital, Armenia’s ministry of health said on Monday.

On January 12, a soldier of the Russian military base in Armenia identified as Private Valery Permyakov without permission abandoned his post with arms and cartridges. Later on, he broke into a private house in Gyumri and shot dead a family of six, including a two-year child, and wounded a six-month baby. He left his uniform and footwear with badges and his submachine gun and munitions and fled the scene. He was arrested on the same day by Russian border guards while trying to cross Armenia’s border to Turkey.