Baku, Azerbaijan, Mar. 10
Trend:
A special operations group of Azerbaijan’s State Security Service on March 10 liquidated two people, who using firearms confronted the operation to arrest them.
The State Security Service has told Trend that it earlier received information about people who were smuggling, keeping and transferring firearms, ammunition and explosives in Azerbaijan to commit particularly serious crimes. An investigation into the case confirmed the information, and a decision was made to take urgent measures.
On March 10, the State Security Service held a special operation to detain Azer Huseynov and Ali Islamov, who were suspected of committing the abovementioned crimes. However, during the operation, these persons, using firearms in a residential zone, confronted the State Security Service’s special operations group with armed resistance, and were eliminated in a countermeasure taken by the special operations group in line with the law.
The State Security Service said it confiscated an AKSU-74 assault rifle, two Makarov pistols and a homemade pistol, as well as explosives weighing 400 and 75 grams and a considerable number of cartridges of various calibers, illegally kept by Azer Huseynov and Ali Islamov.
The State Security Service also said operational and investigative measures currently continue.