Three Armenian soldiers killed, four wounded in Azeri attack

By Asbarez | Thursday, 19 March 2015

Three Armenian soldiers serving in the Artsakh Defense Army were killed by an Azeri attack.

STEPANAKERT—Artsakh’s Defense Ministry reported Thursday that privates of the Artsakh Defense Army Hakob Khachatryan (born 1996), Edward Hayrapetyan (1995) and Arshak Harutyunyan (1995) were killed, as a group of Azerbaijani special forces attacked the Armenian positions in the northern section of the line of contact near Gyulistan.

The Ministry said another four soldiers were wounded in the attack at about 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning.

After a two-hour long fight the Armenian side made the rival retreat, hunted the Azeri soldiers and destroyed the group close to its military positions.

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