Two Nagorno-Karabakh soldiers ‘killed by Azeri gunfire’

Soldiers shot and killed in fire from Azerbaijan early on Tuesday, Nagorno-Karabakh defence ministry says.

Violence that erupted in early April was the worst since the end of a war in 1994 [AP]

Two soldiers from the Armenian-backed Nagorno-Karabakh were killed by gunfire from Azerbaijan in the early hours of Tuesday, the defence ministry of the breakaway region said.   

There was no immediate response from Azerbaijani authorities.

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An earlier bout of violence erupted earlier this month  –  the worst since a war that ended in 1994, leaving the region under the control of local ethnic Armenian forces and the Armenian military.

Source: Reuters