Azerbaijan says forced around 40 Armenian troops to retreat after border incursion

[June 02, 2021]    BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's defence ministry on Wednesday said around 40 Armenian military personnel had crossed into Azeri territory on Tuesday evening and were forced to retreat.

A view shows a damaged truck belonging to ethnic Armenian forces in an area that came under the control of Azerbaijan's troops following a military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, in Jabrayil District, December 7, 2020. REUTERS/Aziz Karimov

There was no immediate response from Armenia. Azerbaijan last week said Armenian forces had fired on Azeri positions, accusations denied by Armenia, amid a border row between the former Soviet countries.

(Reporting by Nailia Bagirova; Writing by Alexander Marrow; editing by John Stonestreet)

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