Along the serpentine highway linking Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway Armenian enclave, Norik Grigoryan strained to catch a glimpse of his village just a few miles away.
His wife and son are stuck there, he said, after Azerbaijan reclaimed the region this week in a swift military operation.
But the passage was blocked, and communications were intermittent at best.
“We’ve been waiting for three days,” said Mr. Grigoryan, 55, standing with a group of sullen men, also anxiously waiting to join relatives and friends.
“Yesterday, I was standing here, my pressure went high, I almost died,” he said.
Persons:
Grigoryan, “ We’ve, ”, “
Locations:
Armenia, Nagorno, Karabakh, Azerbaijan