AZERI CIVILIAN INJURED IN MINE BLAST IN KARABAKH

Turan
Nov 17 2008
Azerbaijan

Baku, 17 November: An IDP from Agdam District, Abdulla Qurbanov,
born in 1987, was blown up on an anti-tank mine in the village of
Qapanli in Tartar District at 2232 [1832 gmt] on 16 November.

The incident happened 500-1,000 m. off the front-line [in Karabakh],
the Azerbaijani National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) has told
Turan. Qurbanov was on horseback at the time of the blast. He received
serious injuries to an arm and his body and lost an eye. After Qurbanov
received first aid at the Tartar hospital, he was taken to a hospital
in Baku.