Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Armenia, Azerbaijan accuse each other of launching new attacks

Hopes for a humanitarian ceasefire ending fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh sank further on Thursday as the death toll mounted and Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of launching new attacks.

Last Saturday's ceasefire, aimed at letting the sides swap detainees and bodies of those killed in the clashes, has had little impact on the fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but populated and governed by ethnic Armenians.

Shelling was heard on Thursday and damaged ambulances seen around near a civilian hospital damaged by shelling in the town of Martakert, while Reuters crew witnessed shelling in the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Martuni on Tuesday.

On Thursday, three Azeri civilians were killed and three were wounded during a funeral in Azerbaijan's Terter region when an artillery shell fell on a cemetery, presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev said on Twitter.

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