04 June 2004 05:50
41 Russian employees flying home from Iraq
MOSCOW. June 4 (Interfax) - An Il-76 aircraft of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry has arrived in Moscow from
Baghdad.
"Forty-one employees of Interenergoservis company returned to Moscow from Baghdad. Anatoly Korenkov will remain
at the U.S. hospital in Iraq at the insistence of doctors due to his severe wound," a ministry spokesman told
Interfax on Friday.
Earlier, company CEO Alexander Rybinsky said all 57 company personnel would be evacuated on Friday.
On May 27-28, the Emergency Situations Ministry evacuated 179
citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus from Iraq. Another plane
After the first hostage-taking of eight nationals of Russia and Ukraine, 483 Russian and CIS nationals left Baghdad
on April 15-16.
When two more Russians were taken hostage on May 18, 109 Interenergoservis staff members were airlifted to
Moscow.
On May 26, two employees of Interenergoservis, Vyacheslav Ovsyannikov and Viktor Dynkin, were killed, and six others
wounded when their bus came under fire in Al Doura.
evacuated one of the two severely wounded Interenergoservis employees, Vladimir Trifonov. [RU EUROPE ASIA EEU EMRG IQ
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