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  Three Armenians, including one citizen of RA, killed in terrorist act at Vladikavkaz market September 9, 2010 - 19:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - RA Foreign Ministry Spokesman Tigran Balayan said that three Armenians, including one citizen of Armenia – Arsen Elbakyan, were killed in the terrorist act at Vladikavkaz market. “Consul General of Armenia to Rostov-on-Don Ararat Gomtsyan left for Vladikavkaz,” Balayan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. Besides, according to the list published on the website of Vladikavkaz city administration, Sergey Grigoryan, Irina Gasparyan (1964) and Arsen Elbakyan (1986) are among 16 victims of the terrorist act. Shahnazar Shahnazaryan (1920) is on the list of those who were hospitalized. The blast occurred near the city's central market at 11:22 Moscow time. The explosive device, equivalent to 30-40 kg of TNT, was detonated by a suicide bomber in a car. At least 16 people were killed, including a child. According to the Minister of Health of North Ossetia, around 113 people suffered in the blast. 99 people were hospitalized, including children. A criminal case was initiated over the explosion under several articles of the Russian Criminal Code – murder of two and more persons, terrorist act and illegal trafficking in weapons.  Top stories The Ministry said that almost 350 prisoners have been caught posting to Facebook via smuggled Web-enabled smartphone devices. On July 31, 1932, she was crowned Miss World despite competition from 27 countries, winning Turkey’s first title. 87 percent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage. Tigran Sargsyan: today we live in a period of internal contradictions that result in emergence of crisis.   |  Latest news At least 217 killed in Syria’s Homs “massacre”  Tweets claiming to be by residents of Homs spoke of a city that "is bleeding" and under heavy bombardment.Micron CEO Steve Appleton dies in plane crash Appleton’s death i major loss for U.S. memory chipmaker struggling with sluggish computer sales and declining prices.U.S. Congressmen press Clinton to renounce her recent remarks on Genocide At a recent department-wide meeting, Secretary of State mischaracterized the Armenian Genocide as a “historical debate.”U.S. Reps. Wolf, Chu commemorate Armenian massacre in Azerbaijan “Between 1988 and 1990, the Armenian population was the target of racially motivated pogroms in Azerbaijan,” Judy Chu said. |
