Sharjah24- AFP: Armenia and Azerbaijan said Friday that more than 210 people died in border clashes this week, with Yerevan accusing Baku troops of atrocities in the arch foes' worst fighting in two years.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will travel to Yerevan Saturday after this week's escalation has largely undone recent Western efforts to bring Baku and Yerevan closer to a peace agreement.
The Caucasus neighbours have fought two wars -- in 2020 and in the 1990s -- over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, Azerbaijan's Armenian-populated enclave.
Both sides accuse each other of provoking the clashes, which erupted on Tuesday and ended with international mediation overnight on Thursday.
On Friday, Azerbaijan's defence ministry revised the death toll among its troops to 77 from an earlier reported 71.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said: "For the moment, the number of dead is 135."
"Unfortunately, it is not the final figure. There are also many wounded," he told a cabinet meeting.
Armenia's rights ombudsperson, Kristina Grigoryan, later said one civilian was also killed and six wounded in shelling by Azerbaijani forces, while hundreds of civilians fled their homes.
The chief of staff of Armenia's armed forces, Eduard Asryan, accused Azerbaijani troops of committing "horrible atrocities," saying they mutilated and dismembered the bodies of dead Armenian servicemen.
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