(1 Oct 2020) Civilians wounded by shelling in Armenia and the adjacent breakaway republic of Nagorno Karabakh described their ordeal Thursday as fighting continues with neighboring Azerbaijan.
They were speaking from hospital in Armenia's capital Yerevan where they were taken for treatment.
Anahit Vahram, a woman from Vardenis village in eastern Armenia, some 20 kilometers from the Azerbaijani border, told the Associated Press that she had been injured while going to work on September 27 - the day hostilities broke out.
She said the train line leading to their village had been blown up and that the children had been evacuated.
Another patient, Vahram Vegorgyan, said he was hit while in a car in the village of Kalbajar in Nagorno-Karabakh itself.
He said the vehicle he was in had been attacked by a military plane and that many people in the vehicle had been injured.
He is being treated for shrapnel in his leg.
Clashes broke out Sunday in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region within Azerbaijan that has been controlled by ethnic Armenian forces backed by the Armenian government since the end of a separatist war in 1994.
Fighting has continued unchecked since Sunday, killing dozens and leaving scores wounded.
Armenian and Azerbaijani forces blame each other for continuing attacks.
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