An Azerbaijani civilian in recently-liberated Fuzuli district has hit by a cluster-munition, local authorities reported on July 12.
Elshan Khalilov, born in 1987, stepped on a cluster bomb while working in the area in Fuzuli’s Garakhanli village, the district’s prosecutor’s office said.
The man received various degrees of bodily injuries. There has been no further information on his health condition. He was an employee of Korpu-Bina-Tikinti construction company working on the restoration of Fuzuli.
The bomb had been fire at Fuzuli by Armenian forces during last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia used clustered bombs forbidden by the international law, including Smersh, during last year’s war that saw Azerbaijan liberated most of its territories in and around Nagorno-Karabakh.
Amnesty International on October 29 verified the use of banned cluster bombs by Armenia for the first time in the current Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, following an attack on the city of Barda in Azerbaijan. The organization described Armenia’s use of cluster bombs as “cruel and reckless”.
Around 100 Azerbaijani civilians were killed in Armenia’s attacks on residential areas far from the conflict during the war between September 27 and November 10 in 2020.
Moreover, around 140 Azerbaijanis have been either killed or injured in explosion of mines planted by Armenia from late 1990s until 2020.
