On January 13, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev took part in the reopening ceremony of the Tartar Electromechanical Plant following its reconstruction. Since 2005, the enterprise, which has been operating since Soviet times, has been placed under the authority of the newly established Ministry of Defense Industry. The plant is expected to produce various types of military equipment.

One person has died after a passenger car crashed into a tractor in Azerbaijan’s Tartar district late at night, according to local media reports.

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake struck Azerbaijan’s Tartar district, 32 km north of Barda station, on Monday, News.Az reports, citing the Republican Seismic Survey Center of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

A landmine blast occurred in the village of Hasangaya of the Tartar district on Tuesday, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General’s Office, and the Mine Action Agency (ANAMA) said in a joint statement.

One civilian died as a result of a landmine explosion in Azerbaijan’s Tartar district, reads a joint statement from the Interior Ministry, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (ANAM), News.Az reports.