At Least 125 Killed in Explosion at Nagorno-Karabakh Fuel Depot
Posted on AllSides September 26th, 2023
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Armenia’s health minister said on Tuesday that at least 125 people had been killed in an explosion at a fuel depot in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan that was filled with ethnic Armenians rushing to leave the region after a military offensive by Azerbaijan last week.
The cause of the explosion, which produced a large fire that lit up the night sky near the region’s capital, Stepanakert, was not immediately clear. Witnesses in Nagorno-Karabakh reported that the blast had occurred as people lined up to refuel their cars.
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