Police officer injured in mine explosion in Azerbaijan

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A policeman was blown up by a mine in the Agdam region, his right leg was amputated.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, residents of Azerbaijan, both military and civilians, regularly suffer from mine explosions and other ammunition in the former Karabakh conflict zone. On June 1, while laying a country road in the Kalbajar region, a tractor driver was blown up by a mine.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, an employee of the Agdam district police department was blown up by an anti-personnel mine while on duty in the area of the village of Papravend, Report.az writes today.

The victim's right foot was amputated at the ankle.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported on April 6 that the number of victims of mine explosions after the 44-day war in Karabakh in 2020 reached 392. In August 2023, public organizations of Azerbaijan appealed to the UN and the European Union with a request to help solve the problem of demining the country's territories. In May 2024, the European Union, which had allocated 10 million euros to Azerbaijan for mine clearance since 2020, agreed to increase its financial assistance to Baku for mine clearance in the former Karabakh conflict zone to 14 million euros.

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