‘Civilians killed’ as Azerbaijan fires on Armenian positions in Nagorno-Karabakh

A damaged residential apartment building following shelling in Stepanakert in the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan (Siranush Sargsyan/AP/PA)

Ethnic Armenian officials reported at least two civilians were killed and 23 wounded when Azerbaijan’s forces opened fire on Tuesday on Armenian positions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in what it called an “anti-terrorist operation”.

Azerbaijan’s authorities also accused Armenian forces of killing a civilian, which brought the civilian death toll of Tuesday’s hostilities to at least three.