{"id":278597,"date":"2017-02-08T15:20:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=278597"},"modified":"2017-02-08T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T11:21:50","slug":"one-soldier-dead-one-wounded-in-karabakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/02\/08\/one-soldier-dead-one-wounded-in-karabakh.html","title":{"rendered":"One Soldier Dead, One Wounded as Tensions Rise in Karabakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A contract serviceman of the Nagorno-Karabakh defense army, 38-year-old Gegham H Manukyan, was fatally wounded by Azerbaijani fire at around 11 am on Wednesday in a military unit deployed in the northern direction of the line of contact between NKR and Azerbaijani forces, NKR defense ministry reports. Concurrently, the officials said, 19-year-old conscript Koryun K Kirakosyan received a non-fatal gunshot wound to the head in a Martakert unit.<\/p>\n<p>The NKR defense ministry had earlier reported an escalation of tensions on the contact line of NKR and Azeri armed forces, accusing Azerbaijan of intensively shelling its frontline positions.<\/p>\n<p>The Azerbaijani defense ministry, in turn, claimed on Tuesday that \u201cat around 5 pm Armenian forces began shelling the Azerbaijani positions to divert the troops&#8217; attention and attempt a sabotage infiltration in another direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NKR military authorities, however, today rebuffed the Azeri statement, deeming it \u201cdisinformation aimed at deluding the international public.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NKR defense ministry had earlier reported an escalation of tensions on the contact line of NKR and Azeri armed forces, accusing Azerbaijan of intensively shelling its frontline&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65984],"tags":[13901,11083,11838],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}