Armenians kill Azeri officer, wound soldier – TV report
ANS TV, Baku
7 Jun 04
[Presenter over still of Azerbaijan’s map] The chief of a battalion,
Capt Zaur Ismayilov, 28, became a martyr today when Armenians fired
from their positions in the village of Horadiz at the Azerbaijani
positions in the village of Cocuq Marcanli [near Iranian border in
southwestern Azerbaijan] at around 0500 [0000 gmt]. The 19-year-old
soldier Bagirov Ramil Vagif oglu was wounded. This was confirmed
by the head of the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry’s press service,
Ramiz Malikov.
It was impossible to take the body of the officer away until
retaliatory fire forced the Armenians to stop, ANS TV’s Karabakh
bureau reports, quoting local residents. The wounded soldier was
rushed to a military hospital.
According to another report from the Defence Ministry, units of the
Armenian armed forces fired from a point 1.5 kilometres northeast of
Berkaber village [in Armenia] in Idzhevan District at the Azerbaijani
positions in the village of Qizil Hacili in Qazax District between
2210 and 2230 [1710 and 1730 gmt] on 6 June. From the same point
and from a point located 1.4 kilometres southeast of the occupied
village of Xeyrimli in Qazax District, the Armenians subjected the
village of Mazam in Qazax District to fire from assault rifles and
large-calibre machine guns between 0115 and 0125 on 7 June [1915 and
1925 gmt on 6 June].
The enemy was forced to stop by retaliatory fire in both cases.