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Baku: Officials in Azerbaijan and Armenia made conflicting casualty claims on Wednesday following clashes near the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijan's Defence Ministry accused the Armenian forces of starting fighting on Tuesday and said three of its servicemen had been killed and one wounded. Ministry spokesman Eldar Sabiroglu said 12 Armenian soldiers had been killed and another 15 were wounded during several hours of clashes.
A military spokesman for ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, Senor Asratian, said late on Tuesday that eight Azerbaijani soldiers had been killed and two of the separatist region's soldiers wounded in clashes northeast of the region.
The clashes came as Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliev, issued his latest suggestion that his country could use force to regain control over Nagorno-Karabakh.
The region is inside Azerbaijan but has been under ethnic Armenian control since a 1994 ceasefire ended a six-year war.
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