Two Azeri servicemen wounded in Karabakh truce violation

Azad Azarbaycan TV, Baku
9 Mar 05

[Presenter] Firefights are continuing on the contact line between
the Azerbaijani and Armenian armed forces. On the night of 8 March,
the Armenians fired at the positions of our national army in three
directions. As a result, two servicemen were wounded. One of them
was given first aid and the other one was hospitalized.

[Correspondent over video of the front line] Two servicemen of the
national army, an officer of military unit X, Maj Bakir Huseynov,
and Private Mammad Mammadov were wounded in a cease-fire violation by
the Armenian armed forces in three directions of the front line on
the night of 8 March. ATV’s Karabakh bureau reports that Maj Bakir
Huseynov was wounded when the Armenian armed forces fired at the
village of Sixlar in Agdam District. His wound was not serious and
he was given first medical aid.

Private Mammad Mammadov, who was wounded in another truce violation
in Tartar District, is in hospital at the moment.

Beginning from 2010 [1610 gmt] on 8 March, the Armenian armed
forces fired from their positions 2.5 km south of the village of Tap
Qaraqoyunlu in Goranboy District at the positions of the Azerbaijani
army in Tartar’s Borsunlu village with assault rifles and machine
guns for 35 minutes, the press service of the Defence Ministry says.
The Armenians also fired from grenade launchers at the positions of
the Azerbaijani army in Tartar District’s village of Qapanli from
their positions in Tartar’s occupied village of Seyidsuvanli at 2325
[1925 gmt].

Half an hour later, the Armenian side fired from assault rifles
and machine guns at the positions of the Azerbaijani army from its
positions 1.5 km south of the village of Sixlar in Agdam District.