ARMENPRESS. A miner working in the Sotk gold mine in Armenia’s Gegharkunik Province was shot and wounded by Azerbaijani military shooting on May 7, the mine’s operator GeoProMining told ARMENPRESS.
GeoProMining representative Ruzanna Grigoryan told ARMENPRESS that the shootings began in the evening of May 6 but intensified midday May 7. “The victim is the driller. He is hospitalized and is in a stable condition. The man was wounded in his left arm, in the direction of the heart, but fortunately he didn’t suffer internal organ injuries,” Grigoryan said.
The mine’s operations are now suspended and all employees were evacuated.
As of 17:00 the shootings had stopped, Grigoryan said.
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The Armenian Ministry of Defense issued a statement on the latest Azerbaijani shooting attack that wounded a worker at the Sotk gold mine in Armenia’s Gegharkunik Province.
The Ministry of Defense said that the Azerbaijani military also targeted the Armenian military positions nearby.
“On May 7, around 13:50, the Azerbaijani military units opened fire from various caliber small arms at the Armenian military positions deployed in the eastern direction of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, as well as in the direction of the Sotk gold mine, which resulted in one of the workers of the mine sustaining a gunshot wound. His life is not in danger. The Azerbaijani military shooting was suppressed by countermeasures. As of 16:30 the situation at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is relatively stable,” the Armenian Ministry of Defense said.
