Published on 10:41 AM, October 17, 2020

Armenian attack kills 12 civilians in Ganja, says Azerbaijan

Search and rescue teams work on the blast site hit by a rocket during the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the city of Ganja, Azerbaijan October 17, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Azerbaijan said today 12 civilians were killed and more than 40 were wounded in the city of Ganja due to shelling by Armenia.

The Azeri Prosecutor General's office said that two shells hit apartment buildings in the country's second-largest city.

There has been no official reaction from Armenia as yet.