YEREVAN, March 5. /TASS/. Three police officers of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic were killed and one more was wounded as a result of a shelling attack on a police car by a sabotage group of Azerbaijani soldiers, the Armenpress news agency said on Sunday, citing the interior ministry of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
"As a result of shelling of a police passport and visa department car near Khaipalu, three policemen were killed and one more was wounded," it said, adding that the police car was attacked by a sabotage group from Azerbaijan. "The Azerbaijani side gives false information that weapons were transported from Armenia to Artsakh (the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic – TASS) in the police car. The car that cane under the attack wan not transporting any weapons. The police officers were heading to Stepanakert to take duties. A sabotage group of the Azerbaijani army laid an ambush in a forest near the road and attacked the car from there," it said.
"As a result of retaliatory action taken by the policemen and Artsakh defense army servicemen deployed to the nearby positions, the Azerbaijani side sustained losses and was repelled to the original positions," it reported.