TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN EARTHQUAKE
BBC World Service
December 7, 2008
Tenth anniversary of Armenian earthquake
Armenia is marking the anniversary of the earthquake that killed more
than twenty-five thousand people ten years ago.
The country’s political leaders are due to attend ceremonies in the
worst affected areas in the north and west of the country.
Attention is expected to focus again on the two towns that suffered
the most serious casualities, now renamed Vanadzor and Gyumry, and
still bear the scars of the earthquaqe – ruined buildings and more
than twenty-thousand families homeless.