BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 3. The remains of one
more person have been found in the mass grave in Khojaly, the press
service of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan, Trend reports.

It was noted that the Department of Forensic Science and
Information Technology of the General Prosecutor’s Office is
conducting an investigation into the discovery of a mass grave
during excavation work carried out as part of major restoration and
construction work in the center (near the former carpet factory) of
the city of Khojaly liberated from the Armenian occupation.

“As a result of investigative actions carried out in the
specified territory, the remains of one more person were
discovered. It was thus established that the human remains buried
in the mass grave belonged to at least 14 individuals (two of them
minors) who were subjected to inhumane treatment and physical
violence. It was also found that their hands were tied,” the
reports says.

Specialists from the Prosecutor General’s Office with the
participation of employees of the Association of Forensic Medicine
and Pathological Anatomy of the Ministry of Health, the National
Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, the State Commission for
Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Citizens, and the
Azerbaijani Representative Office of the International Committee of
the Red Cross (ICRC) went to the place where the burial was
discovered inspected the burial site, the discovered bone fragments
were duly removed for the purpose of conducting examinations and
laboratory tests, and other necessary procedural actions were
carried out. The public will be provided with additional
information, the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a
statement.