{"id":295799,"date":"2026-09-03T11:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=295799"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:55:20","slug":"azerbaijani-authorities-evacuated-5000-people-after-a-fire-triggered-explosions-at-an-ammunition-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/295799\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijani authorities evacuated 5,000 people after a fire triggered explosions at an ammunition depot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Azerbaijani authorities evacuated 5,000 people after a fire triggered explosions at an ammunition depot overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, officials said, adding that there were no casualties, BSS<\/a> news reports.<\/p>\n

The blaze broke out at a depot near Nizami village in the western Goranboy district, the emergency situations, defence and interior ministries said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

Emergency and defence ministry personnel, working with police and local authorities, launched an operation and brought the situation under control, they added.<\/p>\n

People living nearby were evacuated as a safety precaution, the statement added.<\/p>\n

Residents of Nizami and the neighbouring village of Khoylu were moved to nearby areas, Goranboy deputy chief executive Seymur Nazarov told journalists.<\/p>\n

“The total number of evacuees is 5,000,” said Nazarov, who heads the district’s emergency commission.<\/p>\n

He said the fire was still burning and sporadic explosions could still be heard, but that efforts were under way to prevent the blaze from spreading and to extinguish it.<\/p>\n

No homes had been damaged and no deaths, injuries or serious losses had been recorded, he added.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Azerbaijani authorities evacuated 5,000 people after a fire triggered explosions at an ammunition depot overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, officials said, adding that there were no casualties, BSS news reports. The blaze broke out at a depot near Nizami village in the western Goranboy district, the emergency situations, defence and interior ministries said in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-azerbeijan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295800,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295799\/revisions\/295800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}