Azerbaijan Says Armenian Forces Shell Second City in Escalation of Week-Long Conflict

Azerbaijan Says Armenian Forces Shell Second City in Escalation of Week-Long Conflict
A shop is seen on fire following recent shelling during a military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Stepanakert, on Oct. 3, 2020. Gor Kroyan/Reuters
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BAKU/YEREVAN—Azerbaijan said on Sunday that Armenian forces had shelled its second city of Ganja in an escalation of the war in the South Caucasus that broke out one week ago.

Armenia denied that it had directed fire “of any kind” towards Azerbaijan, but the leader of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, said his forces had destroyed a military airbase in Ganja.