Azerbaijan raises shocking claim amid Nagorno-Karabakh stand-off

Azerbaijan`s general prosecution office said on Sunday that five people from one family have been killed by the shelling from Armenia`s forces, the first civilian casualties from Baku in the latest flair up over the breakaway province of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Clashes erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Sunday over the volatile Nagorno-Karabakh region, reigniting concern about instability in the South Caucasus, a corridor for pipelines transporting oil and gas to world markets.

Armenia declared martial law and mobilised its male population on Sunday after clashes with Azerbaijan over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region in which sources on both sides reported fatalities. The region’s president Arayik Harutyunyan also introduced martial law and total mobilization of its male population after the flare-up in the Azeri-Armenian conflict 

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