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MAYOR OF ARMENIA'S SECOND LARGEST CITY ATTACKED, 3 KILLED, 6 INJURED
Regnum, Russia
April 3 2007
Mayor of Gyumri, Armenia's second largest city, Vardan Ghukasyan
was attacked yesterday in Armenia. As a REGNUM correspondent report
citing data received in the hospital, where the mayor is undergoing
treatment now, three persons who were accompanying Ghukasyan were
killed in the attack, six others received severe injuries.
Contradicting reports are coming about the deputy mayor, Gagik
Manukyan. Under some data, he died, according to other sources,
he is in poor condition.
Vardan Ghukasyan's motorcade, consisting of two cars, a Mercedes and
a Volga, was moving by the Yerevan-Gyumri road at about 10:00 p.m.,
when a an SUV-car without license plates blocked the road near the
town of Ashtarak and attackers opened fire. Under most recent reports,
life of the mayor is not under threat. He was injured in his back,
and doctors are now performing a surgery on him. There are a lot of
people in the hospital yard, including acting Defense Minister Serzh
Sargsyan, members of the Armenian Republican Party (RPA) and members
of the parliament.
Vardan Ghukasyan was participating in the RPA council session in
Yerevan that proposed to President Robert Kocharyan to appoint Serzh
Sargsyan as prime minister's post that has been vacant since Prime
Minister Andranik Margaryan died on March 25.
Regnum, Russia
April 3 2007
Mayor of Gyumri, Armenia's second largest city, Vardan Ghukasyan
was attacked yesterday in Armenia. As a REGNUM correspondent report
citing data received in the hospital, where the mayor is undergoing
treatment now, three persons who were accompanying Ghukasyan were
killed in the attack, six others received severe injuries.
Contradicting reports are coming about the deputy mayor, Gagik
Manukyan. Under some data, he died, according to other sources,
he is in poor condition.
Vardan Ghukasyan's motorcade, consisting of two cars, a Mercedes and
a Volga, was moving by the Yerevan-Gyumri road at about 10:00 p.m.,
when a an SUV-car without license plates blocked the road near the
town of Ashtarak and attackers opened fire. Under most recent reports,
life of the mayor is not under threat. He was injured in his back,
and doctors are now performing a surgery on him. There are a lot of
people in the hospital yard, including acting Defense Minister Serzh
Sargsyan, members of the Armenian Republican Party (RPA) and members
of the parliament.
Vardan Ghukasyan was participating in the RPA council session in
Yerevan that proposed to President Robert Kocharyan to appoint Serzh
Sargsyan as prime minister's post that has been vacant since Prime
Minister Andranik Margaryan died on March 25.