Parliament of Armenia honored memory of terrorist attack victims in  National Assembly on October 27, 1999

ArmInfo.The Parliament of Armenia honored the memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in the National Assembly on October 27, 1999.  Acting Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan, President of the National Assembly Ara Babloyan, the  MPs laid flowers at the memorial in parliament.

This morning, the Acting Minister of Defense and a number of other officials visited  the Erablur military pantheon where former Prime Minister Vazgen  Sargsyan was buried. To note,the Armenian parliament shooting,  commonly known in Armenia as October 27 was a terrorist attack on  the Armenian National Assembly in the capital Yerevan on October 27,  1999, by a  group of five armed men led by Nairi Hunanyan that, among  others, killed the two de facto decision-makers in the country's  political leadership - Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and Parliament  Speaker Karen Demirchyan. Sargsyan and Demirchyan were posthumously  honored with National Hero of Armenia titles. The murderers also  shot dead Yuri Bakhshyan, Deputy National Assembly Speaker, Ruben  Miroyan, Deputy National Assembly Speaker, Leonard Petrosyan,  Minister of  Urgent Affairs, MPs Henrik Abrahamyan, Armenak  Armenakyan, Mikayel  Kotanyan.