Ganja Baku/Sputnik: The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Monday that Ganja, the country's second-largest city, was being shelled from Armenia's Berd region.
"The city of Ganja is under fire launched from the territory of Armenia's Berd region," the ministry said in a statement.
Later, Azerbaijan’s presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev wrote on Twitter that the Armenian side had targeted the central market in Ganja.
"Armenian armed forces shelled central market of Ganja. How market could have any military importance? This indiscriminate missile attack was done with sole purpose of causing mass casualties among civilians," Hajiyev said.
On September 27, Armenia and Azerbaijan reignited the decades-long simmering conflict by accusing each other of violating the 1994 ceasefire and causing civilian casualties on both sides. Amid continued fighting in the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, several countries, including Russia, the United States, and France, have urged parties to exercise restraint and to resume negotiations without pre-conditions.
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