Azerbaijan, Baku, 19 November / Trend corr. K.Zarbaliyeva / Investigation into crash of helicopter with Azerbaijan senior officials on board in the sky of Garakand village of Khojavand region 17 years ago, has been suspended.
"The investigation into the crime was suspended as it took place area currently occupied by the Armenian Armed Forces. It was impossible to expose criminals," the Prosecutor General's Office told Trend on 19 November.
The Armenian Armed Forces shot down MI-8 Helicopter, which included Azerbaijani senior officials, Russian and Kazakh military observers, on 20 November in 1991 and as a result, killing 22 people.
The incident killed Azerbaijani Interior Ministry Mahammad Asadov, Prosecutor General Ismat Gayibov. Secretary of State Tofig Ismayilov, his Deputy Rafig Mammadov, MPs of USSR Supreme Council Vali Mammadov and Zulfu Hajiyev, Head of Presidential Administration's Department Osman Mirzayev, Head of Shusha City Administration Vagif Jafarov, journalist Ali Mustafayev, operator Fakhraddin Shahbazov and lighter Arif Huseynzade.
A lawsuit was filed on the incident at the Military Garrison Prosecutor's Office on 21 November in 1991 and submitted to the Republican Prosecutor's Office to continue investigation.
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