Baku says Azerbaijan, Armenia exchange bodies of killed servicemen

Azerbaijan and Armenia exchanged the bodies of servicemen killed in the battles around the town of Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh, the press office of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on Saturday, TASS reports.

"With the mediation and the participation of the Russian peacekeeping forces stationed in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Azerbaijani Republic, the bodies of several servicemen killed on the battlefield around the town of Shusha were collected. As part of this humanitarian action, the bodies of servicemen of the Armenian armed forces were gathered and transferred to the Armenian side," the press office said in a statement.

"Also, the bodies of six servicemen of the Azerbaijani army killed there during the battles were received as part of this action," the statement says.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry expressed its gratitude to Russian counterparts and personally to Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu for organizing the humanitarian action.