Azerbaijan Railways service trains arrive in liberated Aghdam VIDEO

The service trains of the Azerbaijan Railways (AR) have arrived liberated in Aghdam, which is called the “Hiroshima of the Caucasus”.

"The potential of Azerbaijan Railways in restoring life and infrastructure in Karabakh is irreplaceable," Sanubar Nazarova, head of the press secretariat of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, told Report.

Aghdam town has been destroyed so much that it is sometimes called the "Hiroshima of the Caucasus".

The Aghdam district in Azerbaijan was handed on November 20, 2020, to its rightful owners, Azerbaijanis, after being occupied for 27 years since Armenian forces took control of the region in 1993.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenian forces, which carried out attacks on Azerbaijani territory, occupied Khankandi in 1991, Khojaly and Shusha in 1992, and entered Aghdam in 1993 after Lachin, Khojavend, Kalbajar and Aghdara.

In the city centre and more than 100 villages, as many as 143,000 Azerbaijanis resided there before the occupation.

About 5,000 Azerbaijanis were murdered in defence of the city.