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Publish date23 Nov 2014 - 9:22
Story Code : 174654

Karabakh claims it killed 2 Azeri soldiers

Two Azerbaijani soldiers have been killed during an operation by the forces of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region to remove the bodies of three crew members of a downed Armenian helicopter, the Karabakh army says.
Karabakh claims it killed 2 Azeri soldiers
The army made the announcement in a statement released on Saturday.

"As a result of a special operation, the remains of the crew were retrieved, as were specific parts of the helicopter," the statement said.

Earlier this month, Azerbaijan declared that it had downed an Armenian MI-24 combat helicopter after it “attempted to attack positions of the Azerbaijani army near [Karabakh's] Agdam district."

However, Yerevan rejected Baku’s claim, saying the military helicopter was merely carrying out a training flight.

The two ex-Soviet Caucasus nations claim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.

Ethnic Armenian forces took control over the enclave, which accounts for 16 percent of Azerbaijan, in the early 1990s during a six-year war that took place from February 1988 to May 1994.

The conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million displaced before the two sides agreed to a ceasefire in 1994. However, a permanent peace accord has never been inked and the dispute still remains unsettled.

Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the region by force if negotiations between the two sides fail to yield results, while Armenia has pledged to retaliate against any military action.
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