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Chairman of the Armenian Investigative Committee Aghvan Hovsepyan and chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin on Tuesday signed an agreement to form a coordinating body to ensure efficiency of cooperation in the investigation of the murder of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, the press service of the Armenian Investigative Committee reported.

The coordinating body will include ten Armenian and Russian specialists.

As reported earlier, the chiefs of the Russian and Armenian Investigative Committees agreed on a joint investigation of the massacre in Gyumri.

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 who later died in hospital. 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.