Funeral of soldier killed in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

(11 Oct 2020) A funeral was held on Sunday for an Armenian soldier who was killed in recent fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh. The small ceremony took place in Stepanakert, where family members wept as they gathered round his coffin. They say he was killed by a sniper. Fighting has continued in the separatist region despite a cease-fire deal brokered by Russia. Nagorno-Karabakh’s military officials on Sunday said that the territory’s army was observing the cease-fire but that Azerbaijani forces shelled Stepa