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Residential buildings destroyed after last weekend’s attacks on Gjandzja.
Residential buildings are said to have been destroyed in a robot attack in the city of Gjandzja overnight until Saturday.
Several people are said to have been killed in the attack, which is an escalation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The attack took place in the early evening local time and was followed by a second and a third attack against another part of Gjandja and the strategic military city of Mingecevir.
The attacks, which came from Armenia, were in response to the Azeri bombardment of Stepanakert, the capital of the separatist Armenian-ruled Nagorno-Karabakh region, on Friday night.
I was sleeping
There has been no official death toll since the attacks on Gjandzja, Azerbaijan’s second-largest city, but the AFP news agency reports that its reporters have seen bodies. An aide to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, said on Twitter that at least 20 houses had been destroyed.
– We slept and the children watched television. All the surrounding houses have been destroyed, there are many people under the landslides, some are dead, others damaged, Rubaba Zhafarova, whose house was destroyed, told AFP.
Last Saturday, at least 10 people were killed in grenade attacks in residential areas in Gjandzja. A temporary ceasefire came into effect last weekend and this week both Russia and Turkey called on the parties to join.
Many dead
Russia, along with the United States and France in the so-called Minsk Group, has assumed a mediating role in the conflict, but Moscow also has a defense pact with Armenia.
Turkey, for its part, supports Azerbaijan, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement Wednesday that control of Nagorno-Karabakh should go to Azerbaijan.
In all, nearly 600 people have died, even before the night’s attacks on more than 70 civilians, since fighting broke out just over two weeks ago.
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