Land Mine Blast Kills 2 Azerbaijani Journalists

Two Azerbaijani journalists and a local government official reportedly were killed Friday in a land mine explosion.

The three died when their car ran over an anti-tank mine in Azerbaijan's Kalbacar district. Four other people were reportedly injured. Azerbaijan's foreign ministry identified the journalists killed as Sirac Abisov of state-run AzTV and Maharram Ibrahimov of state news agency AzerTag. The ministry blamed the deaths on Armenia and accused it of violating the Geneva Conventions by using land mines. Armenia has not responded.