Armenian soldier killed in Azeri rebel region

An Armenian serviceman was killed by Azerbaijani sniper fire north of the Nagorno-Karabakh region on January 28, News.am reported. 

Karen Galstyan, 19, was fatally wounded in the head, the news website said, citing the separatist region’s defense ministry.

This brings to four the number of troops killed in clashes along the ceasefire line in the past ten days.

Two Azerbaijani army officers and an Armenian sergeant had been killed earlier.

Armenians captured nearly 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s internationally-recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts, in a war after the Soviet Union’s breakup in 1991.

More than 20,000 people were killed and nearly 1 million Azerbaijanis displaced before Russia brokered a ceasefire in 1994.

The sides have yet to sign a peace agreement despite more than 20 years of talks mediated by the US, Russia and France.

ANN.Az