GYUMRI MAYOR WOUNDED IN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
ARMENPRESS
Apr 03 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 3, ARMENPRESS: Vartan Ghukasian, the mayor of Armenia’s
second largest town of Gyumri and his deputy were wounded yesterday
at about 10.20 pm by unknown gunmen in a bold highway attack that
also killed three men who were in his car convoy.
The attack occurred between the capital, Yerevan, and Gyumri, near
the village of Parpi.
Vartan Ghukasian, who was returning home after his Republican Party’s
conference in Yerevan, was hospitalised in serious but stable condition
after the attack on his two-car convoy.
Ghukasian’s driver and two bodyguards were killed.
Another bodyguard was hospitalised in serious condition, a spokesman
for Armenian police said.