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Baku/08.05.23/Turan: According to the Armenian media, the Syunik region Court sentenced Aqshin Babirov, one of the two Azerbaijani soldiers who crossed the border with Armenia on April 9, to 11.5 years in prison. He was found guilty of illegally crossing the border, smuggling firearms and ammunition across the state border. According to the same sources, Babirov pleaded guilty. The investigation into the case of the second military man, Huseyn Akhundov, continues, he is accused of murdering the security guard of one of the enterprises near the city of Kafan, the message of the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia for May 8.
*On April 10, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported that two soldiers got lost on the border of Nakhchivan and Armenia.
Later, one of them came to the village of Bnunis in the Syunik region and asked for help from the villagers, and the second one was detained three days later near the town of Kafan. At the same time, the Armenians brutally beat him, filmed it on video and posted it on social networks. In addition, a second soldier was charged with the murder of a security guard at a local enterprise. The Armenian authorities called both detainees saboteurs. ---02D---
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