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23 years pass since Armenians shot down helicopter with women and children on board in Shusha

28 January 2015 07:38 (UTC +04:00)

Baku - APA. 23 years have passed since another terrorist attack committed by Armenian Armed Forces against the civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh, APA reports.

On January 28, 1992, a Mi-8 civilian helicopter flying from Aghdam to Shusha was downed as Armenian armed units opened mortar fire from the direction of Khankendi.

A total of 44 people including 41 passengers (many of whom were women and children) and 3 crew members were killed in the terrorist attack committed near Khalfali village of Shusha.

Two months before this incident – on November 20, 1991, MI-8 helicopter was shot down by Armenians with a number of public figures and journalists on board near Garakend village of Khodjavand region.

22 people - State Secretary Tofig Ismayilov, Deputy Prime Minister Zulfu Hajiyev, State Advisor, former Interior Minister Mahammad Asadov, Prosecutor General Ismat Gayibov, parliamentarians Vagif Jafarov and Vali Mammadov, Department Chief of the President’s Office Osman Mirzayev, First Deputy Minister of International Affairs of Kazakhstan Sanlal Serikov, employee of Azerbaijan State TV and Radio Ali Mustafayev and others were killed as a result of the tragedy.