{"id":44047,"date":"2020-10-11T07:23:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T07:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44047"},"modified":"2020-10-11T07:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T07:23:43","slug":"azerbaijan-says-seven-dead-in-overnight-armenian-shelling-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44047","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan says seven dead in overnight Armenian shelling: Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">Azerbaijan and Armenia accuse each other of violating ceasefire brokered by Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"70\">\n<p>At least seven people have been killed in overnight Armenian bombardment in Azerbaijan\u2019s second city of Ganja, the Azeri defence ministry said, less than 24 hours after a ceasefire in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory was agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The Russia-brokered truce, put in place after marathon talks in Moscow between both sides, was meant to halt fighting to allow ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azeri forces to swap prisoners and war dead.<\/p>\n<p>But the two sides accused each other of violating the terms of the truce merely minutes after it came into effect.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia\u2019s defence ministry accused Azerbaijan of shelling a settlement inside Armenia, while ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh alleged that Azerbaijan\u2019s forces had launched a new offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides have consistently denied each other\u2019s assertions about military activity.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the latest updates:<\/p>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-fantasia-770 wp-image-1186268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Armenia-Azerbijan-control-map-01-2.jpg?w=770&#038;resize=770%2C516\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/h3>\n<h2>Sunday, October 11th<\/h2>\n<h3>06:30 GMT \u2013 Armenian shelling leaves seven dead: Azerbaijan<\/h3>\n<p>Azerbaijan said on Sunday that shelling by Armenian forces on the country\u2019s second-largest city had left seven people dead, a day after a ceasefire between the two sides had been due to take effect.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cnew nightly missile attack by Armenian forces on (a) residential area of Ganja,\u201d left seven dead and 33 wounded including children, Azerbaijan\u2019s foreign ministry wrote on Twitter on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The defence ministry in the breakaway region said Armenian forces were respecting the ceasefire and in turn accused Azerbaijan of shelling civilian areas.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of \u201cKarabakh forces shelling Ganja is an absolute lie\u201d, it added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan and Armenia accuse each other of violating ceasefire brokered by Russia.At least seven people have been killed in overnight Armenian bombardment in Azerbaijan\u2019s second city of Ganja, the Azeri defence ministry said, less than 24 hours after a ceasefire in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory was agreed. The Russia-brokered truce, put in place after marathon&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}