April 2, 2016 - 17:06 AMT
Injured Karabakh soldiers flown to Armenia

Several soldiers injured in the course of military actions on the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan are being transported to Armenia in a helicopter. The ambulance of Yerevan’s Erebuni medical center is taking those wounded to military hospital Muratsan, the medical center’s press secretary Shushan Hunanyan reports.

On the night of April 1-2, Azerbaijani armed forces initiated overt offensive operations in the southern, southeastern and northeastern directions of the line of contact with Nagorno Karabakh, using artillery, armored fighting vehicles and air force equipment among other weapons.

Aside from the battles on the frontline, the rival has also carried out artillery strikes on civilian settlements and places of permanent deployment of several military units.

On April 2, at around 8:30 am, the rival used BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher in the Martuni direction of the contact line. 12-year-old Vaghinak Grigoryan was killed in the shelling, two more children were wounded.

Earleir, the Nagorno Karabakh special forces identified an Azerbaijani subversive group near the Levonarkh settlement and threw the saboteurs back to their positions.

According to Armenia’s Defense Ministry, the rival troops retreated after suffering several human losses.