An employee of the Azerbaijan National Mine Clearance Agency (ANAMA) was injured in the line of duty.
The incident occurred on April 27 in the village of Gaybaly in the Shusha region. ANAMA employee Elchin Aydin oglu Guliyev, born in 1981, was blown up by an antipersonnel mine. The victim received a “traumatic amputation of his right leg,” according to a joint statement by ANAMA, the Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan.
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Source: Turan News
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