Azerbaijani journalists, official killed in landmine explosion
Al Jazeera
Three killed and four wounded after anti-tank mine explodes in area recaptured from ethnic Armenians.
Two Azerbaijani journalists and an official were killed on Friday by a landmine explosion in the Kalbajar region, west of Nagorno-Karabakh, authorities said. Four others were injured in the incident, which saw a truck blown up by an anti-tank mine at about 11am local time (07:00GMT), Azerbaijan’s interior ministry and the office of the prosecutor general said in a statement. The three victims were identified as local official Arif Aliyev, Maharram Ibrahimov, a reporter working for state news agency AzerTag, and Siraj Abishov, a journalist with the state-run AzTV station.
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