Azeri officer killed in Armenian truce violation – TV

Lider TV, Baku
8 Nov 04

[Presenter] The Armenian side has broken the cease-fire on the front line
again and an Azerbaijani officer has been killed. Lider TV’s special
correspondent for the Karabakh region, Teymur Zahidoglu, reports that Lt Bahaddin Abdiyev
was shot dead in the territory of Agdam District at an early hour today. He
had been conscripted by the military enlistment and registration office of Tovuz
District. We are now having a link-up with the Karabakh region for the
details. Our correspondent Teymur Zahidoglu is to be on the phone. Hello, Teymur.

[Teymur Zahidoglu speaking over the phone] Good day, Rasad.

[Presenter] Teymur, how did the incident happen?

[Correspondent] Armenian army units in the occupied village of Yusifcanli in
Agdam District fired on the Azerbaijani army positions in the village of
Hacimammadli in Agdam District from assault rifles and machine guns on the night
leading to 8 November. As a result, an Azerbaijani army officer, Lt Bahaddin
Abdiyev, aged 24, was shot dead. There are no other casualties among the military
or local civilians.

[Passage omitted: repetition]

Other front line villages of the district are being subjected to fire from
small-calibre guns intermittently every other day. Back to you, Rasad.

[Presenter] Thanks, Teymur. It was Lider TV’s special correspondent in the
Karabakh region, Teymur Zahidoglu.

The head of the press service of the [Azerbaijani] Ministry of Defence, Ramiz
Malikov, has already confirmed the reports on the death of the Azerbaijani
officer and said that an investigation is under way.