Another body was found during the search operations in the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) war zone on Tuesday, the spokesman of Artsakh’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Wednesday.

The remains were retrieved from the vicinity of the town of Hadrut, Hunan Tadevosyan told Panorama.am, adding the body is yet to be identified through a forensic DNA analysis. He said the deceased is supposed to have been a civilian.

Meanwhile, Tadevosyan said the search operations for the war casualties were planned in Fizuli and Jabrail today, but the Azerbaijani authorities blocked them at the last moment without providing a reason.

"The search groups were about to leave in the morning when they called and said that no work would be carried out," the spokesman said.

Since the end of the 2020 Artsakh war, 1,353 bodies of fallen soldiers and civilians have been recovered from the battle zones.