Azeri paper editor killed in car crash
BAKU – An Azerbaijani journalist was killed and another injured in a car accident on Wednesday.
The Nissan Tida vehicle of the editor-in-chief of Yeni Chag newspaper, Agil Farajov, turned over on a road in a settlement of the Garadagh district outside Baku, the Interior Ministry said.
The passenger riding with Farajov, the head of Poligon news agency and chief editor of Milli Yol newspaper, Shahin Aghabayli, was severely injured in the crash and passed away on the way to a hospital.
Farajov, himself, has been hospitalized with a number of injuries and is in grave condition.
The Main State Traffic Police Department said the accident had been caused by high-speed driving.
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