Armenian Armed Forces fire at Azerbaijani village
By Rashid Shirinov
The Armenian Armed Forces, using 60 millimeter mortars, opened fire on the Gapanli village of Azerbaijan’s Tartar region in the afternoon of April 6.
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry reported that the Armenian militaries shelled on the houses the civilians.
“The Armenian side was suppressed by the return fire of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. Civilian population did not suffer any losses, but their properties were damaged,” the Ministry added.
Head of Tartar Region Executive Power Mustagim Mammadov told Trend that four mortar shells of 60 mm caliber hit the yards of two houses in the Gapanli village as a result of the firing by the Armenian Armed Forces.
“The shelling killed courtyard poultry. One of the shells hit an unfinished non-residential building in the yard and destroyed it,” Mammadov noted.
He added that the village has been regularly shelled since the morning. “The enemy was silenced by return fire of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, and everything is quiet here for last few hours,” Mammadov said.
He reaffirmed that none of the residents was injured during the ceasefire breach.
The Armenian side regularly tries to provoke and sabotage the Azerbaijan Armed Forces on the contact line, but always receives a strong rebuff.
Armenia broke out a lengthy war against Azerbaijan laying territorial claims on its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.
Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.
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