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Civilian seriously injured in mine blast in liberated Khojavand

15 March 2021 16:59 (UTC+04:00)
Civilian seriously injured in mine blast in liberated Khojavand

By Vafa Ismayilova

An Azerbaijani civilian has been seriously injured in a mine blast in Khojavand region liberated from Armenia's occupation in a war in 2020, the Azerbaijani Prosecutor-General's Office reported on its website on March 15.

Azerbaijani civilian Iman Bakhshaliyev, 41, hit a mine during agricultural work, and subsequently received numerous injuries. Part of his leg below the shin was torn off. The fact is being investigated by the Khojavand region prosecutor's office.

Earlier, the Prosecutor-General's Office reported that 10 civilians have been killed and 21 others have been injured in mine explosions in Azerbaijan’s newly-liberated lands since the signing of the peace deal by the Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian leaders on November 10.

Armenia continues to refuse to provide maps for around 100,000 mines planted over about 30 years of occupation of Azerbaijani lands.

Azerbaijan’s Agency for Mine Action has executed 1,800 operational and emergency field visits as a response action to 2,300 calls from September 27, 2020, the Cabinet of Ministers earlier said in its report for 2020.

As a result of the inspections, 1,600 unexploded munitions, 4,500 pieces of anti-infantry mines, 1,400 pieces of anti-tank mines, 1,900 pieces of anti-tank mine explosive fuses, 77 pieces of detonators, 1,400 pieces of 9N235 type bombs, 21,000 patrons of various calibres, 2 gas-grenades, 6 kg grams of black gunpowder, 275 kg of plastic explosives, 150 kg of ammonium-nitrate explosives, 17 meteorological radio direction detectors for military purposes, 7 drones (neutralized), 2 schemes for missiles and 1,900 unexploded missile parts have been found, the report said.

Some experts believe that Armenia has spent $350 million to mine lands in and around Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region that were liberated from occupation in the 44-day war.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on February 26 described Armenia’s failure to provide the maps of mined areas in liberated lands as the main difficulty for Azerbaijani IPDs to return to their homes. He said that this can also be considered to be a war crime as several servicemen and civilians were killed in mine blasts on liberated territories after the war.

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