08 November 2020, 11:57

Teenager dies under shelling in Azerbaijan

The Barda District came under missile and artillery fire from the Armenian side; a 16-year-old resident of the village of Yeni Eiridja was killed, the Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that rescuers of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed about civilian victims of the night shelling of Shushi, while the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) denied the shelling of the city. In its turn, Baku announced shelling of frontline villages of Azerbaijan at night on November 7.

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When a shell hit a private house in the village of Yeni Eiridja, Barda District, the 16-year-old Shakhmaly Ragimov was killed, the "Trend" reports.

The Azerbaijani MoD has also refuted the shelling of the district of the city of Gafan area in Armenia, treating this information as false.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 7, 2020 at 05:08 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

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