Foreign visitors view mass burial site in Azerbaijan’s Aghdara

Participants of the international conference on "Addressing the problem of missing persons: upholding 'the right to know' for the families" visited a mass burial site discovered in the village of Sirkhavand in the Aghdara district, along with the diplomatic corps accredited in Azerbaijan.

According to Report, the remains of about 15 people who went missing during the First Karabakh War were found in the burial site.

Excavation work was carried out there for a month. Human bone remains were discovered by conducting search operations at six locations. It is also suspected that there may be other human remains in the area.

Zaur Ismayilov, a member of the Working Group of the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons, stated in his briefing to journalists that intense battles took place in the Aghdara district during the First Karabakh War: "Many of our soldiers were killed in those battles. It was not possible to retrieve the bodies of all the soldiers killed in the battlefield. They were registered as missing with the state commission."

According to him, witnesses' statements indicate that a military truck containing five soldiers and a nurse was hit there: "Presumably, the remains belong to those people. Remnants of the military vehicle were also found here. In total, four mass burial sites and two unmarked graves with one body buried in each have been discovered in this area."