BAKU. Oct 19 (Interfax) - A latest missile strike on Ganja which resulted in numerous deaths is a war crime, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said.
"The Armenian leadership has committed a war crime by opening fire at civilians and shelling them from tactical operations missile systems," Aliyev said in his televised address to the nation on Saturday.
"Every day, the Armenian Armed Forces shell Terter, Agdam, Goranboy, Agjabedi, and other cities of Azerbaijan, and our citizens died and get injured as a result," he said.
"Over 2,000 houses were destroyed or seriously damaged," he said.
The Azerbaijani Emergency Situations Ministry said earlier on Saturday that the death toll of the missile strike on the Ganja city committed by the Armenian side has increased to 13 and 52 people have been injured.
The Armenian Defense Ministry denied Baku's statement that it had shelled the Azerbaijani territory. "No fire was opened from Armenia's territory or by the Armenian Armed Forces in the direction of Azerbaijan," Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan said on Facebook.