'They bombed everywhere': Survivors recount Karabakh attack - BBC News

Survivors in a remote village say three children and two adults were killed, including two boys from one family.

2 days agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsNagorno-Karabakh conflictImage caption, Mikayel and Nver are on the far right and far left of this photo, taken by a schoolteacherBy Grigor Atanesian and Tural Ahmedzade in London, Siranush Sargsyan in Stepanakert (Khankendi)BBC Global Disinformation Team and BBC NewsThe BBC has been given eyewitness accounts of a bombing incident in a remote village in Nagorno-Karabakh that killed three children and two elderly people. Azerbaijan insists it only focused on "legitimate military targets", but the BBC has spoken to one mother who lost two young sons and had another seriously injured, in what survivors describe as an "indiscriminate attack".

Sarnaghbuyr (called Aghbulag by Azerbaijan) is a village in the Askeran region of Nagorno-Karabakh. It is surrounded by forest and far from any significant military targets.

Zarine Ghazaryan was in the nearby town of Askeran when the attack started on 19 September. She was trying to find baby formula to feed her youngest son, Karen. Nine months of living under a de facto blockade had meant shortages of food, fuel and heating.

Hearing explosions, she tried to return home but says she was stopped by heavy incoming fire.

She was told her son Seyran had been badly wounded and taken to hospital in the main city, called Khankendi in Azerbaijan but known to ethnic Armenians as Stepanakert. Her three other children were being evacuated by Russian peacekeepers. But when she reached the hospital she heard the bombs had killed two of her sons: Eight-year-old Mikayel and Nver, who was 10.