Searches Of Mass Graves To Continue In Azerbaijan's Other Liberated Areas - Official
Date
10/15/2022 8:10:24 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) KHOJAVAND, Azerbaijan, October 15. Search and
excavation work in Edilli village of Azerbaijan's Khojavand
district will continue, a member of the State Commission for the
Affairs of Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons Zaur
Ismayilov told reporters during a visit by a delegation of foreign
experts and NGOs to Edilli, reports on October 15.
According to Ismayilov, this work is planned to be carried out
in other liberated territories , too.
'At the next stage, searches are planned in Fuzuli, Aghdam,
Shusha, Kalbajar and other liberated territories. Mines in these
territories hinder these searches. After mine clearance, this work
will continue more intensively,' he added.
Totally, the remains of 12 people were found in the mass grave.
Fragments of clothing on the remains and found items indicate that
the buried were Azerbaijani soldiers. At the same time, the arms
and legs of the skeletons were tied with wire.
Armenia has so far not provided any information about the fate
of up to 4,000 Azerbaijani civilians and prisoners of war who went
missing during the first Karabakh war.
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