Interfax, Russia
March 5 2010

Armenia crushes Azeri saboteur group – ministry

YEREVAN March 5

A group of five or six alleged Azeri saboteurs who illegally crossed
the border into Armenia has been "neutralized" in a predawn security
operation on Thursday, some of its members being killed while "no one
was killed or wounded on the Armenianside," the Armenian Defense
Ministry said on Friday.

The group had been involved in assaults and stealing farm animals,the
ministry told Interfax.

"The body of one of the Azeris is on Armenian territory, another
saboteur, who was heavily wounded, died on his way to the hospital,
andone more body is thought to be on neutral territory," it said.

The rest of the group managed to escape to Azerbaijan, the ministry said.

The site of the operation against it was in the vicinity of the
village of Koti, it said.