An explosion of ammunition loaded into trucks from the ammunition depot of Armenian Armed Forces near the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh’s Khankendi city caused a severe fire, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.
"The warehouse was used to provide weapons and ammunition to artillery and other units of the 10th Mountain Rifle Division and the 5th Mountain Rifle Regiment of Armenian Armed Forces based in the city. The fire quickly spread to the warehouse, resulting in a powerful blast," the ministry said.
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.
