“We have been living in fear for days ... We are suffering a lot,” one resident of the city, 58-year-old Emina Aliyeva, told reporters. It’s #GanjaCity where Armenian army indiscriminately bombing the city. BAKU . It has not disclosed its military casualties. Ganja, with a population of 335,000, is about 100km north of the Karabakh capital Stepanakert and 80km from the Armenian city of Vardenis. Civilians in Azerbaijan's second-largest city, Ganja, were hit hard by missile attacks by the Armenian army, a top Azerbaijani official said Saturday. “What we have been hearing from [Azeri] officials is that this is a Scud missile that was fired from Armenian territory,” she said, speaking from the capital Baku. In a televised address, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said the town of Fizuli and several other villages in Azerbaijan have been “liberated”, gaining a “strategic edge.”. “Delivering fire on the territory of Azerbaijan from the territory of Armenia is clearly provocative and expands the zone of hostilities,” Azeri defence minister Zakir Hasanov said. Casualties from the past week’s fighting have run into the hundreds, though precise figures are impossible to obtain. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev vowed to strike back against Armenia after shelling on his country’s second largest city Ganja. Three-year-old loses whole family in missile attack on Azeri city, Hours after truce agreed, children became orphans in Azerbaijan, The long story between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh: Sirens, shelling and shelters in Stepanakert. “We support a humanitarian ceasefire, but Armenia isn’t giving it a chance … they keep targeting residential areas,” Hajiyev said in an online briefing with journalists. Azerbaijan is supported by Turkey while Armenia has a defence pact with Russia. Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to a humanitarian ceasefire from midnight, both countries said on Saturday night. Mushfiq Jafarov, a member of parliament from Ganja, told Al Jazeera stringer Seymur Kazimov that the death toll from the attack on Ganja now stands at 13. Nagorno-Karabakh’s foreign ministry issued a statement saying it “reaffirms its readiness to maintain the terms of the humanitarian ceasefire on a reciprocal basis ... according to the Moscow statement of Oct. 10 and the agreements of Oct. 17”. Turkey’s military exports to its ally Azerbaijan have risen six-fold this year, with sales of drones and other military equipment rising to $77m last month alone before fighting broke out over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, according to exports data. Armenia acknowledged that ethnic Armenian fighters were under pressure in some places and said the situation on the ground was fluctuating. Russia is close to both sides but has a defence pact with Armenia. As a result of Armenia’s another military aggression directed against civilians in Ganja, there are numerous casualties, including the wounded and killed. Fighting that broke out one week ago between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces has intensified in the past two days and spread way beyond the breakaway Karabakh region. Nagorno-Karabakh leader Arayik Harutyunyan said his forces would target Azeri cities. Both sides had accused each other earlier of fresh attacks in violation of a week-old Russian-brokered truce that had failed to halt the worst fighting in the South Caucasus since the 1990s. Some are dead, some are wounded.”. “There are only civilians living here,” he said, adding that two little children were among those killed. They urged Armenian forces to stop attacking civilians and withdraw their occupying forces from Azerbaijani lands. Will Libya’s ceasefire agreement hold this time? Ganja Attack. 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I wish we were dead but our children would survive.”. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. International law demands the withdrawal of the external troops from Nagorno-Karabakh, he added. Baku said on Saturday that around 20 apartment buildings in Ganja, the second-largest Azeri city, about 25 miles (40 km) from Nagorno-Karabakh, had been hit by missiles from the enclave. “My house is fully destroyed. Hikmat Hajiyev, a foreign policy aide to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, said  his country wants a ceasefire. Many people are under the rubble. The fighting is the worst in the region since Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces went to war in the 1990s over Nagorno-Karabakh, internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but populated and governed by ethnic Armenians. “All the houses around here are destroyed. “The rescue operation is still ongoing as the body of at least one child is still missing.”. 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