APA, Azerbaijan
March 2 2010

Azerbaijan denies involvement in lethal front-line shooting

Baku, 2 March: The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry has dismissed Armenian
claims of a cease-fire violation and of an Armenian serviceman’s death
after being shot from the Azerbaijani army positions. Teymur
Abdullayev, deputy head of the ministry’s press service, told APA that
the Armenian Defence Ministry’s press release in this regard is wide
of the mark.

"According to information that we have obtained, Sarkis Hasratyan died
after being shot as a result of an exchange of fire between Armenian
servicemen in trenches. Another Armenian serviceman was severely
wounded during the event. A group of doctors from the Yerevan central
clinic was dispatched to the scene to help the wounded man. The
military prosecutor’s office of Armenia has launched a criminal case
and three people have been arrested," he said.