The enemy did not fire in the direction of the village of Verishen of the Goris community today, at this moment there were no shots. Artillery explosions are heard in the village, but they are directed towards the neighboring village of Akner, from where we will later report on the situation.

The enemy shelled Verishen on the night of the 13th. Several houses were damaged in the village. As soon as the sounds of explosions were heard, Samvel Dadunts, along with his family, took refuge in the basement of the house, and the shell fell directly into the basement․

Samvel Dadunts

"At night, when it started, we went into the basement, to a safe place, waited to see what will happen, and then we heard a loud boom, there was fog, dust, we couldn't see each other, somehow we escaped," says Samvel Dadunts with his wife Eprasya Zadayan adding: "My daughter-in-law screamed at the basement door, we left the basement, rested a bit, then went to see what had happened. We came up, turned on the light, saw that it had collapsed."

The basement where the shell fell

Fortunately, the family members were not injured. The house is damaged, the windows of the house are broken, the basement wall is demolished, cars are damaged. Dadunts shows the broken parts of the car.

While we were talking other neighbors come out: neighboring houses and neighbors' cars were also affected by the explosion. Saida and Spartak Dadunts' approach, showing their car, which is out of order. The woman points to a large water tank (each tinplate is about three mm thick), from one wall of which a shell fragment pierced, from the other side came out: imagine that fragment hitting someone's body.

Saida and Spartak Dadunts' and their damaged car

The house of one of the neighbors, Rafik Bakunts, was severely damaged by the wave of the shell explosion that fell into the basement of the Dadunts'. The scenes are the same: broken windows, glasses on the ground, cracked walls. Bakunts says that at 12 am, when the enemy started shooting, the children were taken to a safe place: "I woke them up at night, we took the children, only my daughter-in-law and I were left but then we went there too".

Rafik Bakunts shows his damaged car

Then she went home early to turn off the light and took warm clothes, because it was very cold at night, and just at the moment when she was leaving the house, a shell fell near the house of Dadunts. Bakunts says: "I don't know what happened to me at that moment, the ringing is still in my ears, ringing in my head, I somehow managed to get out, run to a safe place."

Later they came home and saw that everything was broken, destroyed.

The windows of the house of Rafik Bakunts

Rafik Bakunts shows fragments

In Verishen, people continue to live their daily lives. You can also meet children in the backyards, although some of them took their children out of the village for safety reasons. Seeing us off, Rafik Bakunts says that we have great soldiers, "our guys are doing a great job," he says wishing that "next time we would go to film a wedding."

Hayarpi Baghdasaryan