16:00, 29 July 2011

Woman injured on Armenian-Azerbaijani border

On July 27 a woman-resident of Azerbaijan was severely wounded on the state border with Armenia. Azerbaijani party blamed the Armenian opponents of the incident. The Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has categorically denied these allegations.

The incident occurred at about 4:00 p.m. near the water reservoir of Djogaz.

Rakhiba Firudin gyzy Poladova, born in 1988, who was vacationing in the village of Mezem with her family, was wounded in her arm. According to the Azerbaijani party, the woman was shelled by Armenian militaries.

Ms Poladova lost a lot of blood and in grave condition was brought to the Gazakh central district hospital. The woman has been already operated on; her condition remains grave, the TV Channel ANS reports.

David Karapetyan, the press secretary of the Armenian MoD, when commenting on this information, has emphatically denied any involvement of Armenian soldiers in the incident, saying that "the entire responsibility for the consequences of violating the ceasefire mode on the contact line rests on the Azerbaijani party," the IA "News-Armenia" reports.