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State Committee of Azerbaijan issued statement regarding media representatives died in mine explosion in Kalbajar

04 June 2021 19:38 (UTC +04:00)

The State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs of Azerbaijan Republic has issued a statement regardin the civilians died in mine explosion, while being on the duty service in the Kalbajar region of Azerbaijan, APA reports.

Recall that today at about 11:00, a car with employees of TV channels and news agencies sent to the Kalbajar was blown up by an anti-tank mine in the direction of Kalbajar’s Susuzlug village. As a result, the operator of the Azerbaijan Television and Radio Broadcasting CJSC (AzTV) Siraj Abishov, an employee of the Azerbaijan Staten News Agency (AZERTAC) Maharram Ibrahimov, the deputy representative of the Mayor’s Office of the Kalbajar district in the administrative-territorial district of Susuzlug village Arif Aliyev, were killed. Four more people got injured and were hospitalized