Azerbaijan Prosecutor General's Office talks ANAMA's employee hit by mine

As the Armenian Armed Forces retreated following successful counter-offensive operations by the Azerbaijani Army, they mined the abandoned areas, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan said.

An employee of the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA), Telman Zeynalov, sent to the Mehdili village of the Jabrayil district to search for unexploded ammunition. Accidentally, he stepped on a mine, as a result of an explosion, lost his left foot.

“The officers of the Prosecutor General's Office were immediately brought to the scene. They examined the territory where the incident occurred, appointed a forensic medical examination, and performed other procedural actions,“ said the message.

On this fact, the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan opened a criminal case under Articles 100.2 (planning, preparation, unleashing and waging an aggressive war), 116.0.6 (violation of international humanitarian law during armed conflicts) and other articles. The investigation was entrusted to the investigation department of the Prosecutor General's Office.

At present, the officers of the Prosecutor General's Office are continuing intensive investigative measures.

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, part of the Gubaldi region, the city of Gubadli, 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.