Residents of Azerbaijani border areas report damage from shelling

Six children suffered at shelling of the city of Ganja; one teenager perished, the Azeri General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has stated. Armenian missiles hit residential buildings; people are left homeless, residents of the shelled border areas inform.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on October 4, Azerbaijan claimed that in a missile attack on Ganja, the country's second largest city after Baku, one person perished and 32 others were wounded. Araik Arutyunyan, the head of Nagorno-Karabakh, has ordered to stop attacking Ganja in order to avoid casualties among civilians. The Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated its non-involvement in the shelling. Azerbaijan also claimed Armenia's missile strikes on the cities of Mingachevir and Terter, as a result of which local residents were wounded. Armenia has refuted this information.

Out of the 32 persons wounded in the shelling of Ganja, six are children aged from one to 16 years, the Azerbaijan GPO has noted, claiming 248 destroyed houses.

Malik Garaev, a resident of the city of Beilyagan, said that as a result of a missile attack on October 3, his house was seriously damaged; and it's impossible to stay in it.

Dashgyn Cherkezov, a resident of the village of Shakhveliler, the Barda District, said that on October 3, three shells hit their village; one of them hit his house. "I managed to run out; and after some 30 seconds a shell struck right the house," the man said.