Armed border violator is detained

Baku / 30.11.18 / Turan: An attempt to illegally cross the border of Azerbaijan from Iran was prevented. The violator opened fire on Azerbaijani border guards.

According to the State Border Service, on November 29, at 19:10, the frontier guard near the village of Edishe was alarmed. The border guards were able to detect traces of unknown people who had moved from Iran to Azerbaijan. At about 21:25 the border guard found two offenders. Unknown people ignored the demands to stop and opened fire from machine gun. As a result of the return fire, one of the violators was wounded and detained.

Another violator managed to escape. An AKM-74 machine gun, a night-vision device and a mobile phone were found at the scene. The wounded trespasser was taken to the hospital in the region of Jalilabad, where he was provided medical assistance. He is a 42-year-old Iranian Shahzad Shekar oglu Nasirli.

He was already detained by border guards on September 20, 2007, and held accountable for drug smuggling. After serving his sentence in 2014, he was transferred to the Iranian side.

It was established that on July 21, 2018, Shahzad Nasirli as part of an armed group tried to cross the state border. Then during the shooting, Nasirli wounded from a sub-machine gun a Sergeant Ramazan Kurupov. -06D-

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