3 AZERI SOLDIERS KILLED IN CLASH WITH ARMENIAN FORCES – AZERI TV

Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS
March 4, 2008
Russia

Three Azeri soldiers have been killed in clashes that broke out
between Azeri and Armenian forces, Azeri television said on Tuesday,
while the Azeri Defense Ministry declined to confirm the toll.

Armenian forces positioned in a village in Nagorno-Karabakh had opened
fire on Azeri army positions in a nearby Azeri village and that two
Azeri soldiers, Yusif Gasymov and Neimat Dusayev, had been killed in
the attack, ANS television said.

Later, Lider television said one more soldier, Bakhruz Ismailov,
had been shot dead and that several Azeri servicemen and civilians
had been wounded.

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry told Interfax it could not confirm the
three soldiers’ deaths because, it said, the battle was still on going.