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Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of violating a new “humanitarian ceasefire” in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region on Sunday, hours after it came into effect at midnight.
A spokeswoman for the Armenian Ministry of Defence said that there had been rocket and artillery fire from the enemy side early on Sunday and that there were victims on both sides.
The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence later accused Armenia of having “grossly” violated the ceasefire.
The city of Jabrayil and several villages previously under Azerbaijan’s control were allegedly bombarded from the Armenian side, according to the ministry.
Azerbaijan then “took retaliatory measures,” it said.
The new attempt at peace, announced by both foreign ministries on Saturday evening, came as both Russia and France said they had intervened in an attempt to mediate an end the latest flare-up over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenia and Azerbaijan blamed each other for breaking the peace shortly after an initial ceasefire came into force last weekend.
The two ex-Soviet republics have been fighting for decades for the mountainous region with around 145,000 inhabitants.
Christian Nagorno-Karabakh is controlled by Armenia, but under international law it belongs to the Muslim-majority nation of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan lost control of the area in a war that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union some 30 years ago. A fragile ceasefire had been in place since 1994.
Thousands of people have fled the region, predominantly inhabited by Christian Karabakh Armenians, since fighting flared up again on September 27.
The Armenian Defence Ministry has said that more than 600 soldiers have been killed since then.
Azerbaijan has so far not provided any information on losses in its armed forces but it says that more than 50 civilians were killed in Armenian attacks.
Additional reporting by Reuters


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Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of breaking latest ceasefire

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Both sides accused of violating ceasefire, hours after it was agreed

Hundreds of people have been killed in fighting over disputed region