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Armenian 31-year-old Chinari village resident of Tavush region Karen Petrosyan who was killed on 8 August in Azerbaijan appeared in the Azerbaijani Agbulag village, at the door of the house of the local resident Royale Ismahan oglu Guliyev at 1 pm, on August 7 and asked for tea. Later on, he was disguised into military uniforms and declared as diversionist.

The video reportage of  “Azer life”  portal Guliyev says that his mother was the first who saw the Armenian who had lost his way. The lost asked for tea, and cigarettes from Guliyev. Guliyev’s mother tells how she found Karen Petrosyan in their yard: "I came up to the door, I saw as I watched, a man sitting. Then I asked "Who are you?" And he says "tea, tea ..." Then I told my son that an Armenian is sitting in front of our door. Then the neighbors came and began to question him. We then gave him tea, and then the militants came." It is noteworthy that in the video-footage it is visible how the locals get into brawl with the militants, who had come to get the Armenian hostage.

According to the video footage of the Azerbaijani service of "Radio Liberty" by Fariz Tagiyeva, the woman who discovered the lost Armenian tells how the locals were questioning him, and why he was afraid, and he replied that he had nothing with him, no weapons, and his name was Karen.

Tagiyeva took the Armenian citizen to the local tea-house in Agbulag village where young people surrounded Karen and began questioning. "I greeted him, turned him all over, searched him, and checked his sneakers, he had no arms with him," the local resident Niyamat Mammadov says and stresses that Karen was not armed and made no resistance.

The young man added that Karen had an ordinary phone in his hands. The questioning ended when the militants entered the village.

The locals also do not believe in the official version issued by the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan which says that Karen Petrosyan was a diversionist. As Fariz Tagiyeva tells the posts of the Armenian armed forces are located far away from the village, which does not even have the status of "frontier village". "The Armenians have no posts here how could he come here from the Army positions?" wonders the local resident.

On August 8, the Azerbaijani media, reported, referring to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, about the death of 31-year-old resident of Chinari village of Tavush region Karen Petrosyan who was found in Azerbaijan. He allegedly died in Baku from "heart failure." It was noted that "the causes of death are being investigated in Ganja regional center of forensic and pathological anatomy."

Earlier, the Armenian media reported that Karen Petrosyan was a resident of Chinari village of Tavush region of Armenia. He had left on 7 August for the nearby forest to gather firewood. Apparently, Karen Petrosyan had got lost and had found himself in the territory of Azerbaijan. This is confirmed by the primary statements of the Azerbaijani media.

It should be noted that Karen Petrosyan, resident of Chinari village of Tavush region of Armenia, was presented in Azerbaijan as a diversionist and spy. They had even circulated in the media materials on questioning of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia. The footage also clearly demonstrates that he was subjected to severe tortures. He gives only positive answers to the orders of the Azerbaijani militants. Video footage also makes it obvious that Karen Petrosyan is accused of allegedly being a serviceman. They present photographs allegedly taken from his cell phone. Meanwhile, the provided high quality images taken from the old modeled mobile phone and the absence of the faces in the photos suggest that these pictures are not taken from this mobile phone, and are most likely loaded there later, after the capture of Karen Petrosyan. There is every reason to believe that Karen Petrosyan died that night as a result of tortures by the Azerbaijani militants. It is also noteworthy that, according to information he died in Baku, while the autopsy is carried out in Ganja (the distance between these two cities is 372 km).