Prosecutor General's Office: Attack on Azerbaijani and Russian military is a terrorist attack

Baku/13.11.21/Turan: The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan issued a joint message in connection with the morning incident near the city of Shusha, when the Azerbaijani military was wounded as a result of an armed attack.

According to the report, on November 13 at 07.12 a.m. a citizen of Armenia, Norayr Mirzoyan, born in 1975, driving a Mercedes Benz car with license plates 48-MN-048 ER along the Khankendi-Lachin highway in the direction of the city of Lachin. and other persons, stopping near the village of Dashalty, threw an RSL-5 grenade towards the Azerbaijani military and Russian peacekeepers serving here, posing a threat to their lives.

As a result of the attack with the aim of murder on the basis of ethnic enmity, a sergeant of the long-term service of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, Hafiz Nasibov, and two other Azerbaijani soldiers were injured to varying degrees.

A lawsuit has been filed under Article 29, 120.2.1 (attempted murder committed by a group of persons, a group of persons by prior conspiracy, an organized group or a criminal community (criminal organization),

29, 120.2.3 (attempted murder of the victim or his relatives in connection with the performance of the official activity by this person or fulfillment of public duty),

29, 120.2.4 attempted murder committed with extreme cruelty or in a generally dangerous manner;

214.2.3 (terrorism, with the use of firearms and objects used as weapons),

228.3 (illegal arms trafficking as part of an organized group), etc.

The investigation was entrusted to the Investigation Department of the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan.

At present, intensive investigative and operational measures are ongoing.

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