Videos from Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan International Airport emerged amid stories of an Iranian strike on Thursday. News company Reuters cited authorities sources so as to add that missiles and drones flying from the route of Iran fell on the territory. Two civilians have been injured.
“One drone crashed into the terminal building of the Airport of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, and another drone crashed near the school building in the village of Shakarabad,” officers mentioned in a press release.
“We strongly condemn these drone assaults from the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which resulted in harm to the airport constructing and the harm of two civilians. This assault on the territory of Azerbaijan is opposite to the norms and ideas of worldwide legislation and serves to extend tensions within the area.”
A fire started as a result of the incident, the source told the publication, adding that an official statement would soon follow. It was not immediately clear how many missiles and drones fell in the area.
Video footage on social media, posted by locals, showed black smoke rising near a terminal.
Nakhchivan International Airport is located roughly 10 km (6 miles) from the border with Iran.
Second Iranian warship heading towards Sri Lanka
Meanwhile, it was reported that a second Iranian warship was heading towards Sri Lanka’s territorial waters on Thursday, a day after a US submarine destroyed an Iranian frigate, killing at least 87 sailors. Media minister Nalinda Jayatissa, as per AFP, said the second Iranian warship was just outside Sri Lankan waters, but gave no further details.
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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake was meeting top officials on Thursday to discuss a response to an Iranian request to enter the safety of the island’s waters, official sources said.
They said the vessel was carrying more than 100 crew and feared they too could be targeted the same way a sister vessel was sunk by a US submarine just off Sri Lanka’s southern coast on Wednesday.
The sinking came as the war sparked by a joint US-Israel attack on Iran continued to spread across the Middle East and beyond.
(With AFP inputs)
