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An Azerbaijani officer from an international team of specialists was killed in Karabakh
Baku/23.11.20/Turan: An Azerbaijani officer was killed and a Russian peacekeeper officer and four representatives of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh were injured when a mine was detonated in the village of Sugovushan.
The deceased officer was a Colonel Babak Samedli, Deputy commander of the corps, participant of military actions in Nagorno Karabakh.
According to RIA Novosti, an international team of specialists, which included Russian peacekeepers, rescuers from Nagorno-Karabakh, military personnel from Azerbaijan and representatives of the red cross, searched for the bodies of the dead in the area.
The Russian soldier was taken to a hospital in Baku, his life is not in danger. -0-
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