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ICRC reveals number of people missing from Karabakh War

27 January 2022 16:59 (UTC +04:00)

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has revealed total number of people missing from the Second Karabakh War, APA reports citing ICRC website.

"There are approximately 300 people still missing from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict escalation in 2020. Since a ceasefire agreement was signed in November 2020, the remains of more than 1,700 people have been found and the process started to identify and return them to their families.

The International Committee of the Red Cross, together with Russian peacekeepers, has facilitated around 360 operations to find human remains, supporting local recovery teams as they work.

Conditions are always extremely dangerous because the terrain is littered with mines and unexploded ordnances, and on top of that, in winter visibility drops to almost zero," said ICRC representative Christopher Poole.

"On top of the hundreds of people missing from the November 2020 escalation, there are more than 4,500 people missing from the conflict dating from the 1990s," C. Poole also noted.