Update: Death Toll Rises After Explosion at Nagorno-Karabakh Fuel Depot

At least 68 people were killed and 105 remained missing after an explosion at a fuel depot in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, the region’s government said on Tuesday. The blast occurred as ethnic Armenians rushing to leave the region were lining up to refuel their cars after a military offensive by Azerbaijan last week.

The revised death toll came after an earlier statement by Armenia’s health minister, Anahit Avanesyan, at a news conference on Tuesday in which she said that the remains of 125 people had been transferred from Nagorno-Karabakh to forensic centers in Armenia. At least 67 injured people were moved to the country’s national burn center, she added.

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