YEREVAN, APRIL 2, ARMENPRESS. The two children wounded as a result of Azerbaijan shelling civilian settlements are in a critical but stable condition, Chief physician at “Arevik” Children's Hospital in Stepanakert Hovsep Margaryan told “Armenpress.

“The children are in a critical but stable condition, we control the situation. Everything has been done, they have both been operated. Now they are in intensive care unit, under supervision of doctors”, the chief physician said.

He informed that the children are aged 12 and 13; one of them sustained comminuted fracture of the hip and traumatic shock the other sustained soft tissue injury and is in a shock.

Along the entire length of the contact line of Nagorno Karabakh- Azerbaijani opposing forces, on April 1 and throughout the morning of April 2, the adversary undertook large-scale offensive military actions, during which the adversary shelled with missile-artillery units not only Armenian defense positions, but also civilian settlements.

According to the data of the Defense Army, the Azerbaijani armed forces fired MM-21 (Grad) multiple rocket launcher on April 2, at 08: 30 in the direction of Martuni (NKR), killing 12 year old Vaghinak Grigoryan and wounding two other children.