Five killed in new Azerbaijan-Armenia clash in Nagorno-Karabakh

Two Azerbaijani servicemen and three Armenian officers killed in an trade of fireside within the contested enclave.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have engaged in two wars prior to now three many years [File: Artem Mikryukov/Reuters]

Azerbaijani troops and ethnic Armenians have exchanged gunfire in Azerbaijan’s contested area of Nagorno-Karabakh, killing at the least 5 folks.

Azerbaijan’s defence ministry mentioned on Sunday two servicemen have been killed after Azerbaijani troops stopped a convoy it suspected of carrying weapons from the area’s predominant city to outlying areas. It mentioned the convoy had used an unauthorised highway.

Armenia’s overseas ministry mentioned three officers from the Karabakh inside ministry have been killed. The convoy had been carrying paperwork and a service pistol, it mentioned, dismissing Azerbaijani allegations that weapons have been being carried as “absurd”.

It mentioned Azerbaijan’s model of occasions was a “provocation deliberate prematurely and instructed by the highest management”.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have engaged in two wars within the greater than 30 years each ex-Soviet states have been impartial.

The preventing for the management of Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated enclave of Karabakh has claimed 1000's of lives.

A fragile truce has been in power between the neighbours since a 2020 warfare that left greater than 6,500 lifeless and compelled Armenia to cede territories it had managed for many years.

Since mid-December, a gaggle of self-styled Azerbaijani environmental activists has barred the one highway linking Karabakh to Armenia, the Lachin hall, to protest towards what they are saying is illegitimate mining.

Yerevan has accused Baku of making a blockade there.

Professional-Armenian separatist authorities blamed Sunday’s fireplace trade on “a sabotage group of the Azerbaijani armed forces” that “opened fireplace on the automobile of a Passport and Visa Division of the police.”

Azerbaijan’s defence ministry mentioned the incident “as soon as once more reveals that Azerbaijan must create an acceptable checkpoint on the Lachin-Khankendi highway”.

Armenia’s overseas ministry mentioned “sending a world fact-finding staff to the Lachin hall and Nagorno-Karabakh is changing into an important necessity”.