Baku: A rocket has hit a residential building in Azerbaijan’s western city of Ganja leading to the death of at least five people, the press service of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations said on Sunday.
In the early hours of Sunday, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said that Ganja was shelled from the territory of Armenia.
“As a result of the rocket fire, a residential building was fully destroyed. As of now, the bodies of five dead have been recovered from the rubble; there are 17 wounded. Rescuers are working on the spot,” the Sunday statement from the press service of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations says.
Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General’s Office said on Sunday that at least five people were killed and 28 others were injured in Ganja.
“As a result of a rocket attack on a multi-apartment residential building in Ganja, five people were killed and 28 were injured,” the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement.
On the night from Saturday to Sunday, explosions were heard in Stepanakert, the capital of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh (Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh). The city of Shushi, located about 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from Stepanakert was also shelled, according to a Sputnik correspondent.
Late on Saturday, spokesperson of the president of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Vahram Poghosyan, said Shushi and the town of Martuni had been shelled by Azerbaijan despite the active ceasefire.
Poghosyan said that the shelling of Stepanakert amid the ceasefire that came into force at noon on Saturday was disrespectful of the Friday talks in Moscow that led to Yerevan and Baku agreeing to cease hostilities.
