Friday, April 8 2016 11:39

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Azerbaijan keeps violating ceasefire arrangement; NKR Defense Army reports two casualties

Azerbaijan keeps violating ceasefire arrangement; NKR Defense Army reports two casualties

Azerbaijan's armed forces continued violating April 5 ceasefire arrangements shelling along the Line of Contact with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on the night of April 8. 

According to the NKR Defense Army, Azerbaijan used weapons of various calibers (2,000 shots), 60mm mortars. The shelling was intensive in the north (Talish) where a contract serviceman Hrach Samvel Muradyan (1983) was killed. 

In the northeast of the Line of Contact, private Gevorg Ashot Mghdesyan (1996) got a deadly wound in the so far unknown circumstances. The death is being inquired into.
The NKR Defense Army shares the pain of the relatives and friends of the killed soldiers. 

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