Authorities in Azerbaijan say they have arrested a former neighbor of the gunman who killed 12 people and committed suicide at an oil industry academy.

A gunman opened fire at Azerbaijan’s prestigious oil industry academy on Thursday, killing 12 people and wounding 13 before turning the gun on himself, the government said.

At least one gunman opened fire at Azerbaijan’s prestigious oil training institution on Thursday, killing 13 people and wounding 10, the government said.

Azerbaijan’s top election official says voters have overwhelmingly approved scrapping presidential term limits in the ex-Soviet republic.

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry says the country’s air force chief has been shot to death by an unknown assailant.

Azerbaijan’s parliament voted Friday to scrap presidential term limits, potentially prolonging a dynasty that has led the oil-rich Caspian Sea country for 15 years.

Oil-rich Azerbaijan is ready to slash crude output by more than one-third to try to help boost prices, the energy minister said Wednesday as OPEC members decided to cut world production by a record 2.2 million barrels a day.

OPEC on Wednesday agreed to slash a record 2.2 million barrels from its daily production as of Jan. 1, while the bloc’s outsiders Russia and Azerbaijan announced their own cutbacks of hundreds of thousands of barrels from the market.

Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan say they will step up efforts to ensure energy supplies to world markets.

Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan agreed Friday to set up an oil transport system across the Caspian Sea that will help get Central Asia’s massive energy reserves to western markets and circumvent Russian territory.