12:08, 26 March 2016

Resident of Karabakh village wounded in missile attack

Ammunition for Turkish rocket launcher TR-107 gathered near Karabakh village after October 24 and 25, 2015 shelling. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Yervand Pirumyan from the village of Tagavard was wounded as a result of a missile attack from the Azerbaijani side, reports the Defence Ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh. Residents of the village have confirmed the information.

According to the Defence Ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh, this morning, during ten minutes, the Azerbaijani troops were shelling the area of missile launchers.

"Azerbaijan shelled 45 missiles from TR-107 missile launchers towards Nagorno-Karabakh, to a depth of 5 km to the south of the front line. As a result of the shelling, Yervand Karoevich Pirumyan, born in 1989, a resident of the village of Tagavard of the Martuni Region, was wounded. He was engaged in agricultural activities," the "Caucasian Knot" was told at the press service of the Defence Ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Yervand Pirumyan got shrapnel wound to his head, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was confirmed by Levon Alakhverdyan, the head of the Tagavard community.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Author: Alvard Grigoryan

Source: CK correspondent