Azerbaijan evacuates Iran embassy staff, family members after attack

Azerbaijan evacuates Iran embassy staff, family members after attack

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Azerbaijani Embassy staff and their family members have been evacuated from Iran after a deadly terrorist attack on the embassy on January 27, The Statesman reports.

The Embassy staff and their family members have been evacuated from Iran and left for Baku, according to a tweet by Nasimi Aghayev, the ambassador of Azerbaijan to Germany.

A security staff was killed while two others were injured when a man allegedly opened fire at Azerbaijan’s embassy in Iran, Turan News Agency reported.

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