WOUNDED MAYOR OF GYUMRI IS IN GRAVE CONDITION
Arminfo
2007-04-02 23:52:00
The mayor of Gyumri Vardan Ghoukassyan, who was seriously wounded
on Monday, is continues to be in a grave condition. A source from
the reanimation department of the Grigor Lusavorich Health Center has
told ArmInfo that Ghoukassyan has been shot in the buttocks and rectum
and has undergone a seriuous surgery. "He is in grave condition and
everything may happen. The doctors are presently conferring," says
the source.
To remind, the attack on Ghoukassyan took place on the Yerevan-Gyumri
highway near Ashtarak. 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.
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
2007-04-02 23:52:00
The mayor of Gyumri Vardan Ghoukassyan, who was seriously wounded
on Monday, is continues to be in a grave condition. A source from
the reanimation department of the Grigor Lusavorich Health Center has
told ArmInfo that Ghoukassyan has been shot in the buttocks and rectum
and has undergone a seriuous surgery. "He is in grave condition and
everything may happen. The doctors are presently conferring," says
the source.
To remind, the attack on Ghoukassyan took place on the Yerevan-Gyumri
highway near Ashtarak. 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.
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.
