BAKU: Captured Soldier's Uncle: "Yagub Mukhtarov's Parents Were Told

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Captured soldier's uncle: "Yagub Mukhtarov's parents were told in the military unit that he was given a leave on March 8"

Azeri Press Agency
March 13 2008
Azerbaijan

Shaki. Hafiz Heydarov-APA. The parents of Azerbaijani soldier Mukhtarov
Yagub Allahverdi, 20, who has been captured by Armenian armed forces,
are in the military unit where he served, the captive's uncle Allahyar
Mukhtarov told APA's Shaki-Zagatala bureau.

He said that on March 9, an officer of the military unit, where
Yagub Mukhtarov served, came to their house and asked the soldier's
whereabouts. The parents said Yagub Mukhtarov had not come home.

Three days later, they were told that MUkhtarov was captured by
Armenians.

"Yagub's parents have today gone to his military unit. They were told
that the soldier was given a leave on March 8. Supposedly Yagub left
the military unit to come home and was captured by Armenians," he said.

Allahyar Mukhtarov said Shaki Region Military Enlistment Office had
not told anything to the soldier's parents.

Yagub Mukhtarov was drafted from Shaki Region Military Enlistment
Office in October, 2007.