While the signing of a "total ceasefire" has brought an end to six weeks of deadly fighting for control of the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the wounded in the city of Yerevan continue to heal their lives. wounds.
In the hospital in the capital, dozens of Armenian soldiers were reportedly victims of white phosphorus bombs, an incendiary product that ignites on contact with the air.
All present the same type of spectacular injuries.
"It's extremely deep, it goes to the bone and it burns, it eats away at the bone. […] In fact it goes through the clothes", reports to France 24, Élise Boghossian, French humanitarian.
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"A plane bombarded us in the middle of the night, an hour or an hour and a half before the cease-fire ...", explains to our reporters, one of the wounded hospitalized in Yerevan.
According to doctors interviewed on the spot, the wounds keep getting abnormally worse, causing metabolic disturbances and serial heart attacks.
For its part, Azerbaijan denies having used this type of weapon and refers this accusation to Armenia.
The burn victims of Yerevan will take months, years, to heal their wounds, if they survive.
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