Doctors on a hospital train in Aghdam noted no less than four corpses that had been scalped and one that had been beheaded and one case of live scalping .

The late Azerbaijani journalist Chingiz Mustafayev, who was the first to film the aftermath of the massacre, wrote an account of what he saw Some children were found with severed ears the skin had been cut from the left side of an elderly woman's face and men had been scalped.