Gun battle kills several in Nagorno-Karabakh
Published: 06 March, 2008, 00:39
Nagorno-Karabakh soldiers during military exercises outside Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan
(5.2Mb) embed videoAzerbaijan and Armenia have accused each other of triggering an exchange of gunfire in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh. The clash allegedly killed up to 16 people – the biggest death toll in fighting there for several years.
There have been conflicting reports of casualties from both sides.
A fragile truce had been reached in the mid 1990s following a bloody war that killed up to 35,000 people.
Moscow and Washington have expressed concern about the latest shootout and have called for restraint.
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