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    ARMENIA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WOUNDED BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN

    Reuters
    Feb 1, 2013 - 00:41

    YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenian presidential candidate Paruyr Hayrikyan
    was wounded by unknown gunmen in the centre of the capital Yerevan
    on Thursday night, but his life was not in danger, police said.

    Hayrikyan is one of eight candidates in an election due to be held on
    February 18 but is not seen as a strong challenger to the incumbent
    Serzh Sarksyan, who is expected to be re-elected for the second
    five-year term.

    "(Unknown gunmen) were shooting at presidential candidate Paruyr
    Hayrikyan ... Doctors say his life is not in danger," Vladimir
    Gasparyan, the head of the country's police department, told reporters
    at the hospital in comments aired by Shans TV.

    (Reporting by Hasmik Lazarian; Writing by Margarita Antidze in
    Tbilisi; Editing by Alison Williams)

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