Foreign Ministry: Local and international journalists were attacked by Armenia

"Local and international journalists were attacked by Armenian armed forces in Gapanli village of Azerbaijan's Tartar region."

Leyla Abdullayeva, Head of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry's press service, wrote on Twitter, Report says.

On September 27, 2020, Armenia provoked an armed conflict in the Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. As a response, Azerbaijan launched a counteroffensive along the entire Line of Contact in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan to suppress Armenia's combat activity to ensure the safety of the civilian population of Azerbaijan.

The violation of the ceasefire regime was a deliberate act by the Armenian armed forces. The conflict erupted when the Armenian armed forces initiated intensive shelling on the Azerbaijani armed forces and used deadly weapons such as mortars and all sorts of artillery, causing severe damages to the civilian infrastructures and causalities.