03 June 2004 02:45
Wounded Interenergoservis worker to remain in Iraq
MOSCOW. June 3 (Interfax) - Anatoly Korenkov, a worker for the Russian company Interenergoservis who was wounded in
Iraq at the end of May when the bus he was traveling in was attacked, will not be evacuated on Friday with other company
workers, the company's executive director Alexander Rybinsky told Interfax on Thursday.
"We have been told by phone from Baghdad that Korenkov, who is still staying in an American hospital in Iraq,
underwent surgery and the doctors would not allow him to fly to Moscow," he said.
"We hoped that Korenkov would be able to fly and even hired an
intensive care van but now it is clear that he will stay in Iraq for a
"He's definitely not flying to Moscow tomorrow," Rybinsky said.
while," he said.
The Interenergoservis managers had planned to evacuate all its personnel from Baghdad on a Russian Emergencies
Ministry flight on Friday, Rybinsky said.
Following the incident in which Korenkov was wounded and two Interenergoservis workers were killed, the company
managers decided to freeze all its operations in Iraq and recall its entire personnel from that country.
The tentative list of the Emergency Ministry flight passengers includes 54 names, Rybinsky said.
A ministry official earlier told Interfax that Korenkov was on that list. [RU EUROPE ASIA EMRG IQ VIO] ap tj
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