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GUNMEN KILL THREE IN ATTACK ON ARMENIAN MAYOR
Agence France Presse -- English
April 3, 2007 Tuesday 10:13 AM GMT
Gunmen killed three people in an attack on the mayor of Armenia's
second-largest city who was wounded and in serious condition in
hospital on Tuesday, prosecutors said.
Gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons on a two car-convoy taking
Mayor Vardan Gukasian from Yerevan back to Gyumri, a city of 151,000
located kilometres (75 miles) northwest of the capital, late Monday.
Three people in the convoy died at the scene, a spokesman for the
prosecutor general said. Gukasian, his deputy Gagik Manukian and his
driver were wounded and taken to hospital. Three others escaped injury.
Gukasian, a member of Armenia's ruling Republican party, was returning
to Gyumri following a party vote Monday night to name Defence Minister
Serge Sarkisian as Armenia's new prime minister.
Sarkisian, 52, will succeed Andranik Margarian, who died of a heart
attack on March 25 after seven years as prime minister.
Politics often turn violent in Armenia, an ex-Soviet country in
the volatile Caucasus region south of Russia. In 1999, five gunmen
stormed into the parliament and killed the prime minister and seven
other top officials.
Agence France Presse -- English
April 3, 2007 Tuesday 10:13 AM GMT
Gunmen killed three people in an attack on the mayor of Armenia's
second-largest city who was wounded and in serious condition in
hospital on Tuesday, prosecutors said.
Gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons on a two car-convoy taking
Mayor Vardan Gukasian from Yerevan back to Gyumri, a city of 151,000
located kilometres (75 miles) northwest of the capital, late Monday.
Three people in the convoy died at the scene, a spokesman for the
prosecutor general said. Gukasian, his deputy Gagik Manukian and his
driver were wounded and taken to hospital. Three others escaped injury.
Gukasian, a member of Armenia's ruling Republican party, was returning
to Gyumri following a party vote Monday night to name Defence Minister
Serge Sarkisian as Armenia's new prime minister.
Sarkisian, 52, will succeed Andranik Margarian, who died of a heart
attack on March 25 after seven years as prime minister.
Politics often turn violent in Armenia, an ex-Soviet country in
the volatile Caucasus region south of Russia. In 1999, five gunmen
stormed into the parliament and killed the prime minister and seven
other top officials.