Armenian soldier killed in Karabakh clashes
An Armenian soldier has been killed in clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian border forces in the disputed mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Defense Ministry of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region said in a statement on Wednesday that the soldier was shot dead by an Azerbaijani sniper at the frontline.
"On April 7 (Tuesday), a soldier was shot dead on the Karabakh frontline by an Azerbaijani sniper," the statement read.
The Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman also said on Tuesday that another Armenian officer was killed in fierce fighting on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
"Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire at the north-eastern sector of the state border," the Armenian spokesman, Artsrun Hovannisyan, said, adding that an Armenian army officer was killed in the clashes.
Some 25 people from both sides reportedly lost their lives and several others were wounded this year in clashes in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Last month, at least three Armenian soldiers were killed and four wounded in clashes with troops from Azerbaijan near the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The two ex-Soviet Caucasus countries of Armenia and Azerbaijan claim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.
Ethnic Armenian forces took control of the enclave, which accounts for 16 percent of the Azerbaijan territory, during a war which lasted from February 1988 to May 1994.
The conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million others displaced before the two sides agreed to a ceasefire in 1994. A permanent peace accord has never been inked and the dispute remains unsettled.
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