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Russian soldier Valery Permyakov confessed to killing six members of one family in the city of Gyumri, First Deputy Chief of the Armenian Police Hunan Poghosyan said.

“The detained person left his position without permission. He had a rifle, service cartridges and two magazines. Permyakov said he went for a walk around the city, and entered the house where the incident occurred. He said he had no intention of crossing the border, but frontier guards saw and detained him,” Poghosyan said.

The deputy police chief said that Permyakov gave confessional evidence, according to which he acted alone.

Six members of one family were found dead in their house in Gyumri on Monday morning. A six-month-old baby was hospitalized with stab wounds and underwent surgery. Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian military unit stationed in Gyumri, the main suspect in the murder, was detained by Russian border guards overnight while attempting to cross the Armenian-Turkish border near Yerazgavors village in Armenia’s Shirak province.