{"id":119221,"date":"2011-08-12T19:32:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=119221"},"modified":"2011-08-12T19:32:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T14:32:56","slug":"armenian-man-killed-after-attacking-estonia-defense-ministry-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/08\/12\/armenian-man-killed-after-attacking-estonia-defense-ministry-videos.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Man Killed after Attacking Estonia Defense Ministry (VIDEOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A gunman armed with explosives entered Estonia’s Defense Ministry on Thursday and opened fire, but police stormed the building and killed him, officials said. No one else was hurt, AP reports<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many employees were seen escaping from first-floor windows as the gunman detonated a smoke bomb and fired shots in the central Tallinn building.<\/p>\n

Defense Minister Mart Laar said authorities should investigate whether the assailant had been partially motivated by the terrorist who carried out last month’s massacre in Norway that killed 77 people.<\/p>\n

“That is something that needs to be carefully investigated,” Laar told Estonian national broadcaster ERR. He was not in the building at the time of Thursday’s mid-afternoon attack.<\/p>\n

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Officials identified the attacker as Karen Drambjan (pictured above), a 57-year-old lawyer born in Armenia who had Estonian citizenship since the early 1990s. He was a member of the small, left-wing Estonian United Left Party that is not represented in Parliament, ministry spokesperson Peeter Kuimet said.<\/p>\n

Officials said they knew of no possible motive, pending an investigation by the security police and the Prosecutor’s Office.<\/p>\n