Azerbaijan's ANAMA Employee Dies Following Ordnance Explosion In Jabrayil District
Date
6/21/2024 5:21:26 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 21. An employee of the
Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA), Ragif Isayev
(born in 1980), died following an ordnance explosion in the
liberated Jabrayil district, Trend reports via the joint
statement by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the General
Prosecutor's Office, and ANAMA.
According to the statement, other employees who sustained
various degrees of injuries during the incident were evacuated to
the district hospital, and their condition is assessed as
satisfactory.
"Currently, the scene is being inspected by prosecution
officials. An investigation into the incident is being conducted by
the Jabrayil district prosecutor's office," the statement
added.
Following the liberation of its lands from Armenian occupation
in the 2020 second Karabakh war, Azerbaijan from Nov. 2020 started
carrying out operations on clearing its lands of mines, booby
traps, and various weapons left behind by the Armenian troops.
Since the signing of the trilateral statement of November 10,
2020 by Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia [following the second
Karabakh war] up to date, a total of 299 people, including military
personnel and civilians, have become victims of mines as a result
of the explosion of mines laid by the Armenian armed forces, 55 of
them were killed, 244 people were injured of varying severity.
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