Armenian separatists said in a statement that there would be casualties “following an explosion at a fuel depot near the Stepanakert-Askeran road” in the territory disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The EU is trying to mediate
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Hundreds of people were injured in an explosion at a gas station in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in the South Caucasus. The office of the human rights commissioner of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh said Monday evening that at least 200 people were injured and an unknown number were killed in the explosion near the region’s capital, Stepanakert. The cause of the explosion is not yet clear. Politician Metakse Akopyan said that at the time of the accident, many people were queuing to get gasoline locally because they wanted to go to Armenia to escape the Azerbaijanis.
The statement
“There are dead and injured after an explosion at a fuel depot near the Stepanakert-Askeran road,” separatists from this landlocked region said in a statement, adding that “rescuers and doctors are present at the scene.”
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