RA PRESIDENT LAID WREATH TO 1988 EARTHQUAKE MEMORIAL

PanARMENIAN.Net
07.12.2009 12:42 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan who arrived Monday
morning in Gyumri laid a wreath to the 1988 earthquake memorial.

Later, a service for the dead was held in Amenaprkich Church, a
PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent reported from Gyumri.

RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Territorial Administration Minister
Armen Gevorgyan, Shirak region governor Lida Nanyan, Gyumri Mayor
Vardan Ghukasyan and Russia’s Ambassador to RA Vyacheslav Kovalenko
also attended the mourning ceremony.

On December 7, 1988, at 11:41 a.m. local time a magnitude 6.9
earthquake shook northwestern Armenia and was followed four minutes
later by a magnitude 5.8 aftershock.

The earthquake leveled the cities of Spitak and Gyumri and left 25
000 people dead, 100 000 wounded and 500 000 homeless.