ADVISOR OF ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER KILLED

September 11, 2001 - 23:31 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Today at about 9.35 A.M. Advisor of the Prime Minister, former Minister of State Revenue Gagik Poghosian was killed at the entrance to his flat in 30 Toumanian Street in Yerevan. As reported by "Arka" agency, there was an explosion at the moment Poghosian was trying to open the front door. According to tentative data, the blasting assembly was fixed on the reverse side of the door. Poghosian deceased on the way to the hospital from numerous wounds. Poghosian's twenty-year-old son was in the flat, too. He was taken to the hospital wounded. A criminal suit is filed.
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