Vardan Gukassyan, the mayor of Armenia's second largest city, Gyumri, was severely injured in the gun attack while four people travelling with him were killed, the prosecutor general's office said in a statement.
Armenia's President Robert Kocharyan met with his security ministers and ordered them to do everything possible to find the attackers, the president's press service said.
Gukassyan had just attended a special session of the ruling Armenian Republican Party's governing council, which agreed to put forward the acting defence minister, Serzh Sarksyan, as the country's new prime minister.
His nomination follows the sudden death from a heart attack last month of Andranik Margaryan.
The mayor, his deputy and their driver were all hospitalised following the late-night attack while three bodyguards in an accompanying vehicle died as they travelled home by road from the capital, Yerevan. The driver later died in hospital.
So far, local authorities have no clear information on who carried out the attack.
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