(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 26. The UK
Ambassador to Azerbaijan Fergus Auld has shared an X publication
commemorating the 32nd anniversary of the Khojaly massacre,
Trend reports.
“Today, together with all Azerbaijanis, I remember the victims
of the Khojaly tragedy. May the God rest their souls," the
publication said.
On the night of February 25-26, 1992, Khojaly city was occupied
by Armenia's armed forces with the assistance of the former USSR's
366th Motorized Rifle Regiment following massive artillery
shelling.
As a result of the occupation, 613 people, including 63
children, 106 women, 70 elderly citizens were brutally murdered,
eight families were completely wiped out, 130 children lost one of
their parents, and 25 children lost both of their parents. The fate
of 150 people, including 68 women and 26 children out of 1275
people, who were taken prisoner and hostage as well as cruelly
tortured is still unknown.
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