Over 42,000 displaced people from Artsakh arrive in Armenia
As many as 42,500 forcibly displaced people have crossed into Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) amid a massive exodus following last week’s Azerbaijani military offensive, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's spokeswoman, Nazeli Baghdasaryan, said on Wednesday.
Speaking at a news conference, she said registration had already been completed for 22,800 of them. The government has provided housing for some 4,002 displaced persons who had no place to go.
Most of the refugees (1,465 people) were housed in Armenia’s Syunik Province.
More than 200 people were killed and 400 wounded in the two-day Azerbaijani offensive, which forced Artsakh to agree to disband its armed forces and discuss its “reintegration” into Azerbaijan as part of a Russian-brokered ceasefire announced on September 20.
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