Thousands in Armenia fleeing N-Karabakh fighting

As heavy fighting continues in Nagor-Karabakh, thousands of people are fleeing to a part of sourn Armenia to escape conflict in separatist region.

Foot from British brocaster Sky News showed ethnic Armenians arriving into Goris area on Sunday carrying all possessions y could after leaving ir men on front lines.

Roxanna Khacatryan was one of those who fled, leaving her 20-year-old son to fight.

"He always tried to give me hope that everything will be alright," she says choking back tears.

"I don't really kw how he is doing. I just need a peaceful life, only peace and thing else," she ds.

According to Sky News, many of war wounded are being taken to Goris for treatment because hospitals in Nagor-Karabakh are full.

Residents of Goris are strangers to conflict, many remember last round of fighting over Nagor-Karabakh in 1990s.

"I'm t afraid at all. Previously I was in war in 90s and w I'm r afraid to go to war again," says Vrej Dalakyan, standing close to walls of church in Goris which is still peppered with bullet holes from last time two sides took up arms.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked for deces in a conflict over Nagor-Karabakh, where a separatist war was fought in early 1990s until three years after breakup of Soviet Union.

region in Caucasus Mountains of about 4,400 square kilometers (1,700 square miles), roughly size of US state of Delaware, is 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Armenian border.

It has been under control of ethnic Armenian forces and Armenian military since 1994 end of a full-scale separatist war that killed about 30,000 people and displaced an estimated 1 million.