Two Indian workers wounded in Azerbaijani shooting targeting Armenian village construction site

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YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS. The two foreign nationals wounded in the latest Azerbaijani shooting attack in Armenia are construction workers from India, authorities announced.

The two Indian nationals were working at the construction site of the steelworks (metallurgical plant) in Yeraskh when it came under Azerbaijani cross-border gunfire.

The two victims were identified by the Defense Ministry as Indian citizens Muhammad Asif and Mirhasan Sahajan.

The steelworks in Yeraskh is being built with foreign investments.

The healthcare ministry reported that the two Indian nationals are in moderate condition.

"Today, two Indian citizens Muhammad Asif and Mirhasan Sahajan, who were involved in the construction works of the plant, were wounded in the wake of the Azerbaijani fire in the direction of the metallurgical plant being built with the measures of foreign investments in Yeraskh," the Ministry of Defense said in a statement posted on Facebook.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS