ARMENIAN CEASE-FIRE VIOLATION KILLS ONE AZERBAIJANI SOLDIER AND INJURES ONE

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
April 3 2006

One Azerbaijani soldier was killed and one was heavily wounded as
a result of cease-fire violation by Armenians. Azerbaijan’s Defense
Ministry informed that the companies of Armenian armed forces fired
on the opposite positions of Azerbaijani armed forces from their
positions in 1.3 km of Ashaghi Abdurrahmanli village of Azerbaijan’s
region of Fuzuli at 9.00a.m on 2 April.

As a result, Azerbaijani Army serviceman, 19-year-old soldier
Yagubov Shaban Mahammad, who was drafted by military registration
and enlistment office of Zagatala region in April, 2005, was killed.

Another Azerbaijani soldier, 27-year old Shirinov Niyameddin Asad ,
who was drafted by military registration and enlistment office of
Goranboy in January, 2005, was heavily wounded. The enemy was silenced
by response fire.

The Armenian side violated the cease-fire yesterday evening again.

The Defense ministry reports that the companies of the Armenian
armed forces fired on the opposite positions from their positions
near Ashaghi Abdurrahmanli village of Fuzuli region at 21.45 and the
enemy forces again, from their positions in Jafarli village of Gazakh
region, fired on the opposite positions of Azerbaijani forces as well
as Jafarli village with submachine and machine guns at 23.05.

The enemy was silenced by response fire. No causalities were
reported.