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According to official Armenian information, more than 42,000 people have now fled to Armenia from the Caucasian conflict zone of Nagorno-Karabakh, which was recaptured by Azerbaijan. This was announced on Wednesday by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s press secretary Naseli Bagdasaryan. A relief camp has been set up in the city of Kornidzor. The Armenian government has promised to provide shelter to all refugees.

Kornidzor is located in Armenia, near the Lachin corridor, which connects the Armenian core area with the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is within Azerbaijani territory but has until now been inhabited by a majority of Armenians. The area has been a struggle for decades between the ex-Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia. After Baku forced the government of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) to give up last week and conquered the region in short, violent attacks, a mass exodus of the local population began. Satellite images show long queues of cars in the Lachin corridor.

Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh fear violence and persecution after Azerbaijan’s conquest. The escape is overshadowed by the explosion of a fuel depot. At least 68 people were killed and 290 were injured. The explosion hit people Monday evening who wanted to refuel their cars to flee from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.

(yam/sda/dpa)