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The house is still standing, but the explosion destroyed a wall, blew out the windows and overturned all the furniture.
“If I was there, I would have ended up the same ,
”
says Lena Karapetyan, 48, showing a completely charred piece of black bread.
This resident of the village of Sotk, located on Armenia's border with Azerbaijan, in Gegharkunik, was at home on the night of September 13 when her husband Valery woke her up screaming to the sound of gunfire and shelling. .
"It's war, they're coming back!"
he cried.
“
We took our identity papers, my mother-in-law, and we ran out.
We jumped in the car and drove west as fast as we could
,” says Lena.
Their house was hit by rocket fire a few hours later.
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