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    Agence France Presse
    January 27, 2009 Tuesday 1:52 PM GMT



    Three Armenian soldiers killed in Karabakh: Baku

    BAKU, Jan 27 2009


    Three Armenian soldiers have died in fighting near Azerbaijan's
    disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh, Azerbaijan's defence ministry
    said Tuesday.

    Defence ministry spokesman Eldar Sabiroglu told AFP the soldiers had
    been killed Monday night after Azerbaijani forces opened fire on
    Armenian soldiers seeking to take control of an Azerbaijani position
    in the Aghdam region.

    "As a result of an hour-long battle, three of the enemy were killed,
    several wounded and the enemy was forced to retreat," he said. "There
    were no losses among Azerbaijani soldiers."

    A spokesman for Karabakh's military forces said he could not confirm
    the information.

    Armenian forces seized control of Nagorny Karabakh and seven
    surrounding regions from Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, in a war that
    claimed an estimated 30,000 lives and forced about a million people to
    flee their homes.

    The two countries have cut direct economic and transport links and
    failed to negotiate a settlement on the region's status.

    Armenian and Azerbaijani forces are spread across a ceasefire line in
    and around Nagorny Karabakh, often facing each other at close range,
    and shootings are common.
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