The New York Times wrote about truckloads of bodies and described acts of scalping.

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 Armenian militants scalped persons they had killed, cut off their organs, put out the eyes of infants, ripped the abdomens of pregnant women and buried or burned people alive.

And every now and then, we do something like a, you know, an automated hair wrap machine, you know, that tangles your hair and pulls your scalp out, and and we'd make some money on that, you know. And we'd give it out.

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.