The hot phase of the war over Nagorno-Karabakh ended last fall. The cold phase continues until now and gathers its bloody harvest. On Friday, two employees of the Azerbaijani state press and a local official were killed in the Kalbajar district, which returned to the control of Azerbaijan.
A military truck “KaMAZ” transporting media representatives to the shooting in the village of Susuzlug, was blown up by an anti-tank mine.As a result, the operator of the AzTV TV channel Siraj Abyshov was killed in 1989.& nbsp; birth, employee of the news agency “AZERTAJ”Maharram Ibragimov born in 1982 anddeputy representative of the head of the Kelbajar district for the administrative-territorial district of the village of Susuzlug Arif Aliyev. Four people were injured in various degrees of severity and were hospitalized. Among them is the director of the Azerbaijani television Emin Mammadov.
As reported by prosecutor General’s Office and Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan Many minefields remain in the territories in and around Nagorno-Karabakh that Azerbaijan regained control of after last year’s 44-day war.They were created by the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Forces in recent decades. The minefields were laid in a chaotic manner to protect the Azerbaijani army from attack, and the maps of the minefields were not drawn up or were lost. The Azerbaijani authorities constantly accuse Armenia, among other things, that the occupation took place in the very last days before the transfer of a number of territories to Azerbaijan.
The Union of Journalists of Russia expressed its condolences to the relatives and colleagues of the victims.
In late April, Samir Poladov, a representative of the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (ANAMA), said that by that time 50 people had been blown up by mines. 18 of them died.Now the dead are 21.More than 20,000 mines and unexploded ordnance have already been cleared in the territories around Karabakh, but the work is still very far from being completed. The Russian Peacekeeping Forces lost one officer during the mine clearance operation.
Kelbajar (Armenian name Karavachar) is located northwest of Stepanakert. The former part of the NKR was part of the Shahumyan district of the NKR. С 25 ноября 2020 г. поитогам Второй Карабахской Войны и на основаниитрехстороннего the agreement between Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia dated November 10, 2020 transferred the city and the district to Azerbaijan.
The editors of the ” AIF ” also express their condolences to the relatives and friends of the deceased colleagues.