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Mine explosion in Anti-Terrorism Operation hits priest

WOUNDED PRIEST TRANSPORTED FROM ATO ZONE TO DNEPROPETROVSK

RISU, 14 January 2014

 

Three wounded troops, including a military chaplain, were transported to the Dnepropetrovsk provincial Mechnikov clinical hospital.

 

This was reported by the chief physician of the hospital, Sergei Ryzhenko, on his Facebook page, Dnepropetrovsk Kommentarii reported.

 

All have wounds from a mine explosion, with shrapnel in the head and groin area. The priest has a lacerated foot. The soldiers have already been operated on. They celebrated the new year, old style, in a hospital ward, but, as Sergei Ryzhenko noted, with new friends. (tr. by PDS, posted 14 January 2015)


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