The Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan commented on the statements that Mina in Kelbajara was established allegedly after the end of the Patriotic War, heqqin.az reports with reference to the General Prosecutor’s Office.
Earlier it was reported that a criminal case was initiated in the Republican Military Prosecutor’s Office on the fact of death as a result of a subsidence on the mine three and the injury of four people in the territory of the village of Susuzlug Kelbajar district in a car in which media staff and government agencies were located.
In some media and social media, unfounded and unspecified information is distributed in connection with this incident. Therefore, the General Prosecutor’s Office reports that the preliminary investigation found that Azerbaijan’s Armed Forces fully ensures control over the territory where the incident occurred, therefore, the possibility of penetrating Armenian sabotage groups and install mines in the period after exemption from occupation. During the inspection of the scene with the participation of specialists, a funnel was found (240 x 230 cm) with a depth of 97 centimeters and the car came to full unfortunately on the Kamaz chassis.
“As for the causes of what happened, on the basis of the field area where the explosion occurred, and the type of explosion, this is the anti-tank mine installed at a depth of 60-97 cm.
According to the fact that there were no residues of mine at the site of the explosion, it belongs to the anti-tank mine of plastic, tissue or inapproprous, fuhas (armor-piercing) type, is intended for installation on the roads and in places of possible techniques with the use of tanks and armored vehicles against caterpillars . The broken mine is an anti-tank mine of the TM-62P2, TM-62P3, TM-62T, TM-62B3, TM-62T, or TM-62B (included in the same group), and presumably, as a result of the passage of the bus, the miner must work (explode).
also found that during the occupation, Armenian illegal armed formations used the specified road as a way to ensure combat positions, and when Kelbajar district was left, mined territories. The investigation in the criminal case continues, the public will be provided with additional information, “the Prosecutor General’s Office states.