ARMENIA GOVT TO FUND TREATMENT OF EX-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WOUNDED IN MURDER ATTEMPT
Interfax, Russia
March 28 2013
Armenia’s Cabinet told Interfax on Thursday that it had decided to
provide 20.5 million drams ($50,000) next month to enable Paruir
Airikian, a former candidate for president who was badly injured in
an assassination attempt two months ago, to recent treatment abroad.
Airikian had surgery after being wounded in the shoulder in a nighttime
gun attack but still complains about severe pain.
Vardan Sedrakian, one of Airikian’s rivals in the presidential
election, has been put under two months’ arrest on suspicion of
organizing the murder attempt.
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