Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to shell towns despite cease fire

Despite a cease fire that both sides accepted, and that came into effect on Saturday (10 October) at 12 noon, there have since been credible reports of Armenian and Azerbaijani forces hitting residential areas inside and outside the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. Whilst fighting on the ground appears to have eased during the night there are various reports of the use of rockets, missiles and other lethal weapons, and of civilian casualties.

The Russian news agency TASS carried a report from one of its correspondents on the Armenian side, in Stepanakert which is the administrative centre of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in which he said that on Sunday morning (11 October) about 7-8 projectiles had hit the town as air raid sirens sounded. On Saturday evening, a TASS correspondent said about 15 explosions were heard in the city as air raid sirens wailed.

In the meantime Azerbaijan on Sunday morning reported a rocket attack against its second largest city, Ganja, which is far away from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zones. Azerbaijan presidential aide, Hikmet Haciev tweeted this morning that more than seven civilians were killed and 33 injured when a rocket hit residential building in Ganja

The OSCE Minsk Group co-chair have issued a statement calling on the sides to to execute their commitments under the cease fire agreement in full.

source: commonspace.eu with agencies

photo: A rocket hits a residential area in Stepanakert on Saturday (10 October) (Picture courtesy of TASS news agency, Moscow

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