Two killed in ‘Islamist’ clashes in Azerbaijan

BAKU: Two police officers were killed in clashes with ‘ radical Islamists’ in Azerbaijan’s second city of Ganja, with authorities arresting 40 people, the Caucasus nation said late Tuesday.

“Some 200 supporters of a radical religious movement attempted to stage riots outside a local government building in Ganja,” the interior ministry said in a statement.

“Two officers were killed,” it said, adding that police took half an hour ‘to restore order in central Ganja’.

Forty protesters were arrested. – AFP