SIX DEAD IN SHOOTING AT AZERI MILITARY BASE

armradio.am
29.01.2010 17:48

Two soldiers in Azerbaijan shot dead four fellow servicemen and
then killed themselves at a military base near Nagorno-Karabakh,
the defense ministry said on Friday.

The ministry said two other soldiers were wounded in the shooting
which took place on Thursday and the motive behind the shooting was
not known. It gave no further details.

The base is located in the western Dashkesan region of Azerbaijan,
close to the Nagorno-Karabakh frontline where Azeri and ethnic Armenian
forces in trenches have observed a patchy ceasefire since 1994.

Thursday’s shooting appeared to be the worst of a number of similar
cases in recent years. In May 2009, an Azeri soldier shot dead four
officers and wounded five other servicemen, Reuters reports.