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A key opposition figure who won an election against the party of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was murdered in cold blood today in Armenia.

The country is in shock, according to sources in Yerevan.

Pashinyan was recently hosted by President Trump in The White House to sign a peace deal with Azeri President Aleyev.

The opposition head of a large rural community near Yerevan was shot and killed on Tuesday night six months after defeating Armenia’s ruling party in a local election, wrote Radio Free Europe.

The Armenian Interior Ministry said a masked gunman opened fire at the mayor, Volodya Grigorian, a friend of his, off-duty police officer Karen Abrahamian, and another man as they stood outside his house in Merdzavan, one of the nine villages making up the community. Grigorian and Abrahamian died on the spot while the third man, Artsrun Galstian, was wounded and hospitalized.

Some of them also held Pashinian responsible for Grigorian’s killing. The former ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) described it as a “message” to government critics.

“An atmosphere of intimidation, harassment, political retaliation, impunity for the ‘chosen ones’ and thus encouragement of lawlessness has been formed in Armenia, which gives rise to new crimes,” read a statement released by the HHK’s governing body.

As an ethnic Armenian, he belonged to the predominant faith in the country, where approximately 97% of the population identifies as Christian, primarily through the Armenian Apostolic Church.

PM Pashinyan has been attacking the Armenian Apostolic Church.

“This is what happens when the government is busy doctoring recordings, arresting an 18-year-old citizen, entering the Patriarchate and taking revenge on a benefactor, instead of foiling real criminal plans,” said Kristine Vartanian, a parliament deputy from the opposition Hayastan alliance.