On Saturday, An Armenian ballistic missile attack on Azerbaijan’s second largest city of Ganja killed at least 13 civilians and injured 50, AP reported.
Azerbaijani prosecutor’s office said 3 children, 4 women and 6 men were killed, 5 children, 20 women, and 23 men were injured,and 2 children were missing.
Media reports and parts of missile demonstrated showed a Soviet-made Scud missile destroyed about 20 residential buildings in the city overnight, and rescuers spent hours looking for victims and survivors among the rubble.
Scud missiles date back to the 1960s and carry a large amount of explosives, but are notorious for their lack of accuracy.
In a televised address to the people, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called the missile strike a war crime and warned the Armenian leadership that it would bear responsibility for it.
“Azerbaijan will give an answer, and this will be done exclusively on the battlefield,” Aliyev said.
Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan, but has been occupied by Armenia since 1990s along with another 7 districts of Azerbaijan.
Armenia has so far refused to comply with the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly and other organisations’s resolutions and calls for immediate and complete withdrawal from the occupied territories.
The latest outbreak began on September 27 and involved heavy artillery, missiles and drones after Armenia-controlled armed separatists launched an unprovoked attack on Azerbaijan .
Armenia missile attack on Azerbaijan’s Ganja caused great destruction and death of civilians, APA reports.
