Azerbaijan's state border with Iran violated in several directions

Azerbaijan
# 13 July 2022 10:34 (UTC +04:00)

The State border of Azerbaijan with Iran was violated in several directions, State Border Service (SBS) told APA.

Border detachment serving in the territory of border group nearby Deman village of Yardimli district observed violation of state border from the Islamic Republic of Iran in the direction of the Republic of Azerbaijan by three unknown persons at 3:50 a.m. on June 12. The border violators did not follow the "Stop" order and using a rocky and difficult landscape fled back to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Border detachment serving in the territory of border group nearby refugee settlement #8 of Bilasuvar district detected signs showing violation of state border from the Islamic Republic of Iran in the direction of the Republic of Azerbaijan at 6:30 p.m on June 19, the service area was immediately closed.

On July 4, at 11:00 a.m., as a result of complex operational search and preventive measures conducted under the title of "Khash-Khash-2022", 1,713 wild hemp bushes with a total weight of 1,200 kg, were found in the wild near the borderline of Burunlu village of Zangilan district, they were destroyed by setting on fire with the participation of local city police department employees and employees of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.

Border detachment serving in the territory of border group nearby Bala Bahmanli village of Fuzuli district observed state border violation from the Islamic Republic of Iran in the direction of the Republic of Azerbaijan by one unknown person at 00:15 a.m on July 7. The border violator using landscape and bushes fled back to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Border detachment serving in the territory of border group nearby Hamusham village of Astara district detected signs showing violation of state border from the Islamic Republic of Iran in the direction of the Republic of Azerbaijan at 2:00 p.m on July 8, the service area was closed.

As a result of the actions of the operational team in connection with the violation of the state border, the suspicious actions of 3 people near the village of Diguli of the Astara district attracted the attention of the border guards at about 5:30 p.m. Unknown persons who disobeyed the "Stop" order of the border guard were detained while trying to leave the scene. It was determined that they were Musayev Famil Najaf, a resident of Aghstafa district, born in 1992, Aghalarov Mirali Ramig, a resident of Baku city, born in 1992, and Aliyev Aser Habil, a resident of Fuzuli district, born in 1998.

Border detachment serving in the territory of border group nearby Vejnali village of Zangilan district detected signs showing violation of state border from the Islamic Republic of Iran in the direction of the Republic of Azerbaijan at 1:15 p.m on July 11, the area was closed.

Operational investigative measures regarding the facts are underway.

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