Armenia says six troops injured in Azerbaijan attack
Armenia said yesterday that six of its soldiers had been injured by Azerbaijani forces in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which was at the centre of a war last year.
"Six servicemen were wounded in an attack by Azerbaijani armed forces" in Karabakh's Nor Shen community, Armenia's rights ombudsman, Arman Tatoyan, said on Facebook, adding that two soldiers were in a critical condition.
The war for Nagorno-Karabakh last autumn claimed about 6,500 lives and saw Armenia cede territories it had controlled for decades, while Russia deployed peacekeepers in the area.
The region was also at the centre of a 1990s war that cost 30,000 lives during the death throes of the Soviet Union, when ethnic Armenian separatists broke away from Azerbaijan.
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