Azerbaijan’s casualties in tensions on Armenian border rise to 80

An Azerbaijani serviceman, who was heavily injured in recent clashes on the border with Armenia, has died on hospital, bringing the overall losses to 80, the republic’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

"A serviceman of the Azerbaijani armed forces, warrant officer Gurbanov Yusif Asif Oglu, who was heavily injured while preventing a large-scale provocation of the Armenian armed forces, died in the Defense Ministry’s Main Clinical Hospital on September 17," the ministry said.