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Flower laying and incense ceremony took place at the Yerevan Yerablur Military Pantheon on Saturday in memory of Armenak Urfanyan and other heroes of the April Four-Day war. During the memorial event, the relatives of the fallen heroes and the visitors discovered the gravestones of Armenak Urfanyan and Robert Abajyan are vandalized.

In particular tombstones were vandalized by what appeared to be melted candles.The relatives reported the incident to police. Later the law enforcement arrived at the scene.

This is not the first incident at Yerablur Pantheon. Last year
the police detained a person responsible for vandalizing gravestones of heroes at the Military Pantheon.

According to the Police statement, the suspect was identified as 51-year-old woman living in Yerevan who was detained in the cemetery of Ashtarak town, observed while exhibiting a strange behavior. As the detained woman explained to the law enforcement, she had poured candle wax on gravestones on number of cemeteries in capital Yerevan and adjacent settlements what she described as “to remove a curse”.