19 June 2004 10:58
Injured employee of Russian energy company evacuated from Iraq
Moscow, 19 June: An Il-76 aircraft belonging to the Russian Emergencies Ministry left Baghdad for Moscow at about
1200 Moscow time [0800 gmt] today with an injured Russian citizen on board, head of the ministry's information
directorate Marina Ryklina told ITAR-TASS. "The aircraft is expected to touch down at Ramenskoye airport in Moscow
Region at 1600 Moscow time [1200 gmt]," she said.
The injured Interenergoservis employee, Anatoliy Korenkov, is accompanied by resuscitation experts from the
Sklifosovskiy [emergency medicine] institute [Korenkov was injured near Baghdad on 26 May and was too ill to be
evacuated with other Russian energy workers earlier this month]. Korenkov's condition is described as "grave
but stable". [Passage omitted]
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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