Azerbaijan, Baku, 28 June / Trend corr K.Zarbaliyeva / A soldier of Azerbaijan's Iraq-based peacekeeping forces died when implementing his duty.
According to the Defence Ministry, soldier Rafael Seyidbala Agayev had served 1 year in Iraq. On 27 June, his body was sent to Azerbaijan.
The 20-year-old Agayev was conscripted to military service by the military registration of Khachmaz region in 2007. Today, he was buried in his native Ilkhichi Mammadkhanli village in the Khachmaz region.
That is the first death case amongst Iraq-based Azerbaijani peacekeepers. A group of Azerbaijani peacekeepers (150 men) are protecting a hydroelectric power station in Al-Hadida town.
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