At least 200 people were injured and an unknown number of people were killed in the devastating explosion at a fuel depot in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone on Monday evening. According to media reports, people had lined up in front of the depot to get fuel for their getaway vehicles before leaving the Armenian exclave captured by Azerbaijani forces and heading for Armenia.
It is still unclear what caused the disaster in the Armenian-majority region, which was attacked and defeated by Azerbaijan last week. Large flames could be seen in photos on social networks.
The region’s human rights office appealed to the international community: there is an urgent need to fly out people, especially seriously injured people, for treatment. “Nagorno-Karabakh’s medical capacity is not sufficient to save human lives,” said the statement on platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Dramatic humanitarian situation
The humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, long disputed between the two warring ex-Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, is already catastrophic. Azerbaijanis have been blocking the only Armenian access road for months, making food, medicine and gasoline scarce in the region. Last Tuesday, authoritarian Azerbaijan launched a military operation to conquer Nagorno-Karabakh. Just a day later, the defeated Karabakh Armenians surrendered. According to Armenian sources, more than 200 people were killed and more than 400 others were injured during the brief fighting. The tens of thousands of Armenian citizens in the region now fear being expelled or oppressed by the new Azerbaijani rulers.
Source: Krone
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