On May 2, an unexploded ordnance detonated in the recently liberated village of Khanyurd in the Khojaly district.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the General Prosecutor's Office, and the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency, a hand grenade explosion injured Agshin Mammadov, a resident of the village of Jalilli in the Tovuz district, born in 2008.
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Source: Trend News Agency
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