General Prosecutor's Office: Armenian attacks kill 63 Azerbaijani civilians

Some 63 Azerbaijani civilians were killed, 298 wounded as a result of the provocations of the Armenian armed forces from Sept. 27 up till now, the Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office said.

Some 398 civilian facilities, 2,156 private houses, and 90 multi-story residential buildings were damaged.

The Armenian armed forces committed a large-scale provocation, subjecting the positions of the Azerbaijani army to intensive shelling from large-caliber weapons, mortars, and artillery installations of various calibers in the front-line zone on Sept. 27 at 05:00 (Msk). The command of the Azerbaijani Army decided to launch a counter-offensive operation of Azerbaijani troops along the entire front to suppress the combat activity of the Armenian armed forces and ensure the safety of the civilian population. To date, Fizuli and Jabrayil districts, including the cities of Jabrayil and Fizuli, the city of Zangilan and part of Zangilan district, the city of Hadrut and a number of villages in the Khojavend region, the villages of Sugovushan and Talish in the Terter region, as well as the strategically important Murovdag mountain were liberated.