US embassy employee reportedly killed in Armenian capital

Mediamax news agency
18 May 04

Yerevan, 18 May: The US embassy in Yerevan is not commenting on reports
of the murder of a US citizen in the Armenian capital in the evening
of 17 May.

“No comment,” the US embassy press service told a Mediamax
correspondent today.

Several Armenian media, in particular Aravot and Aykakan Zhamanak
newspapers, reported today that the US embassy employee had been
killed in Yerevan in the evening of 17 May.

According to the newspapers, the corpse was discovered with stab
wounds in the backyard of a building in central Yerevan.