Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan in 5 days has acknowledged death of eight soldiers: another soldier kills his colleague

Azerbaijan An emergency situation with fatal result again took place in the armed forces of Azerbaijan: a soldier killed his colleague with a knife. The killed soldier became already the 8th Azerbaijani servicemen whose death has been acknowledged by the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan in last 5 days.

As the Azerbaijani news agency APA reports, in the military unit of Azerbaijani Defense Ministry stationed in Nakhijevan a soldier Nural Bunyadli stabbed his colleague Tariel Mamedov. The latter died.

The fact is confirmed by the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan. It is also reported that the soldier killed his colleague with a knife “due to carelessness, coincidelntly”.

Note that the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan in 5 days has acknowledged death of eight soldiers. On April 7 in Baku officer of air forces of Azerbaijan lieutenant-colonel Natig Maliev committed a suicide. On the same day a soldier of Azerbaijani armed forces Gyaryakmiazli Seymour Rustamoglu shot his colleague Intigam Ismailov and deputy commander of the military unit Ramin Aliyev. As a result Ismailov died and officer Aliyev was taken to hospital, his condition was estimated as serious. Already on April 8 the Ministry of Azerbaijan acknowledged that 3 soldiers died and 6 were wounded. It was reported that on April 7 they were blown up by a mine in contact line in the direction of Fizuli. The soldiers of the Azerbaijani army Novruz Abdullayev Seyfaddin Kerimov and captain Dzheyhun Orudzhaliev died.

On April 10 in Nakhijevan the ensign of Azerbaijani army Alekberov Samir Sarhanoglu committed a suicide, while in another military unit a soldier Elvin Ryuskhatoglu Bazirli shot himself.

From the beginning of 2014 the Azerbaijani government agencies have acknowledged death of already 25 soldiers, 15 out of whom died out of combat zone, 8 of whom committed a suicide, 2 died from disease , 3 died in accidents and at least 2 were killed by their colleagues.

32 soldiers were wounded, 8 out of whom as a result of accidents, 2 as a result of suicide attempts, 7 as a result of carless handling of weapons etc.