Two Azeri journalists and an official killed in landmine blast near Karabakh - prosecutor


BAKU (Reuters) - Two journalists and a local official were killed on Friday in a landmine explosion in Azerbaijan's Kalbajar district on territory that was vacated by ethnic Armenian forces in November, the general prosecutor's office said.

A cameraman for state-controlled AzTV and a correspondent for the Azerbaijan State News Agency were killed when their vehicle hit an anti-tank mine, it said. A local official also died and four people were injured.

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