Ceasefire deal agreed following fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, officials say

Children sleep in a shelter during shelling in Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh (Siranush Sargsyan/AP)

A ceasefire agreement with Azerbaijan has been reached to end two days of fighting in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region, local authorities and Azerbaijani officials said.

The agreement came into effect at 1pm local time, and peace talks between Azerbaijani officials and the breakaway region’s ethnic Armenian authorities were scheduled to take place on Thursday in the Azerbaijani city of Yevlakh.