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RPA EXPRESSED CONDOLENCES TO RELATIVES AND FRIENDS OF DIED AS A RESULT OF ATTACK ON MAYOR OF GYUMRI
Arminfo
2007-04-03 12:03:00
The Board of the Republican party of Armenia expressed its condolences
to the relatives and friends of the died as a result of attack on
the Mayor of Gyumri Vardan Ghoukassyan. According to RPA statement,
spread today, the party condemns this crime and requires from the
country's law machinery to reveal the criminals in the shortest
possible time and punish them.
According to the refined data, the attempt at the Mayor of Gyumri
happened on the Yerevan-Gyumri highway not far from the Ashtarak
town. Witnesses say that at 10:30 PM the mayor's cortege (Mercedes and
Volvo) underwent a dense gun-fire from a gray Jeep with no numbers. As
a result, three people were killed, six people, including the vice
mayor, wounded. The surgeons of the Yerevan Nork hospital have started
the operation for saving the life of V. Ghoukassyan. His life is out
of danger, while his deputy Gagik Manukyan is in a gravest state. The
doctors do everything possible to save his life.
To remind, the attack on Ghoukassyan took place on the Yerevan-Gyumri
highway, when Ghoukassyan was going back from Yerevan where he had
taken part in a meeting of the board of the ruling Republican Party of
Armenia. The board met to discuss the RPA candidacy for prime minister.
Arminfo
2007-04-03 12:03:00
The Board of the Republican party of Armenia expressed its condolences
to the relatives and friends of the died as a result of attack on
the Mayor of Gyumri Vardan Ghoukassyan. According to RPA statement,
spread today, the party condemns this crime and requires from the
country's law machinery to reveal the criminals in the shortest
possible time and punish them.
According to the refined data, the attempt at the Mayor of Gyumri
happened on the Yerevan-Gyumri highway not far from the Ashtarak
town. Witnesses say that at 10:30 PM the mayor's cortege (Mercedes and
Volvo) underwent a dense gun-fire from a gray Jeep with no numbers. As
a result, three people were killed, six people, including the vice
mayor, wounded. The surgeons of the Yerevan Nork hospital have started
the operation for saving the life of V. Ghoukassyan. His life is out
of danger, while his deputy Gagik Manukyan is in a gravest state. The
doctors do everything possible to save his life.
To remind, the attack on Ghoukassyan took place on the Yerevan-Gyumri
highway, when Ghoukassyan was going back from Yerevan where he had
taken part in a meeting of the board of the ruling Republican Party of
Armenia. The board met to discuss the RPA candidacy for prime minister.