<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A growing stream of ethnic Armenian refugees are fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh following Azerbaijan's seizure of the disputed region last week.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">More than 6,500 people have so far crossed into Armenia from the enclave, which is home to a majority of some 120,000 ethnic Armenians.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They left after the government in Yerevan announced plans to move those made homeless by the fighting.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Armenia's PM has warned that ethnic cleansing is "under way" in the region.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"That's happening just now, and that is very unfortunate fact because we were trying to urge international community on that," Nikol Pashinyan told reporters.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Azerbaijan has said it wants to re-integrate the ethnic Armenians as "equal citizens".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Karabakh's main city, Stepanakert, an explosion at a petrol station is said to have badly injured more than 200 people, local human rights ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is not yet clear what caused the blast.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As people flee,there are large traffic tailbacks on the Armenian border.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The BBC has spoken to some of the refugees who arrived in the city of Goris in Armenia on Sunday, close to the border to Karabakh.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I gave my whole life to my homeland," said one man. "It would be better if they killed me than this."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A woman, Veronica, told the BBC that this was the second time she had become a refugee. The first time was during the conflict in 2020.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The main square of Goris is crowded. The theatre nearby is turned into a base for the Red Cross.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tatiana Oganesyan, doctor and head of a foundation of doctors and volunteers that's now helping refugees in Goris, told the BBC that people who have come to the doctors are exhausted, malnourished and psychologically crushed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"People are shocked, they are telling us: I need pills, they are blue," she says. Doctors then need to figure out their medication and find it for them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We have nothing," says an elderly woman who just arrived in Goris. She points at her jumper, saying it's all she could bring with her from home. Her son is on crutches near her.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the nearby village of Kornidzor, refugees who were being processed said they did not believe they could be safe under Azerbaijani rule and did not expect ever to be able to return home.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Armenian government said in a statement on Sunday that hundreds of the refugees had already been provided with government-funded housing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But it has not released a clear plan of how it could cope with an influx of people. Prime Minister Pashinyan announced last week that plans were in place to look after up to 40,000 refugees.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Armenians the BBC has spoken to have said they are prepared to take refugees into their homes. BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>