Five killed in new Azerbaijan-Armenia clash in Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijani troops and ethnic Armenians have exchanged gunfire in Azerbaijan’s contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, killing at least five people, according to news reports.

Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said on Sunday two servicemen were killed after Azerbaijani troops stopped a convoy it suspected of carrying weapons from the region’s main town to outlying areas.

It said the convoy had used an unauthorised road. Armenia’s foreign ministry said three officials from the Karabakh interior ministry were killed.

The convoy had been carrying documents and a service pistol, it said, dismissing Azerbaijani allegations that weapons were being carried as “absurd”.

The fighting for the control of Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated enclave of Karabakh has claimed thousands of lives.