ARMENIAN MAYOR ATTACKED
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The Moscow Times, Russia
April 4 2007
YEREVAN, Armenia — Gunmen wounded the mayor of Armenia’s
second-largest city in an attack that killed his deputy, his driver
and two bodyguards Monday, a police official said.
The attack occurred around 10 p.m. between the capital, Yerevan,
and Gyumri, a city of 150,000 located about 125 kilometers north of
the capital, Armenian police spokesman Sayap Shirinyan said.
Vardan Gukasyan, who was returning home after a party conference in
Yerevan, was hospitalized and in serious but stable condition after
the attack on his two-car convoy, Shirinyan said. Gukasyan’s driver
and two bodyguards died on the scene and the mayor’s deputy died
later from his wounds.
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