Armenia is marking the anniversary of the earthquake that killed more than twenty-five thousand people ten years ago.

The country's political leaders are due to attend ceremonies in the worst affected areas in the north and west of the country.

Attention is expected to focus again on the two towns that suffered the most serious casualities, now renamed Vanadzor and Gyumry, and still bear the scars of the earthquaqe - ruined buildings and more than twenty-thousand families homeless.