Russian Worker Dies of Iraqi Wounds
22.07.2004
MosNews
The employee of a Russian company working in Iraq who was seriously wounded by insurgents there and brought home in a critical condition this May, died in a Yekaterinburg hospital on Tuesday, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
He was apparently overwhelmed by the strain of a fourth operation that had taken place earlier in Moscow, Alexander Rybinsky, the company’s executive director, was quoted by the news agency as saying.
Anatoly Korenkov, who was working for Interenergoservis near Baghdad was wounded when Iraqi insurgents opened fire on a company bus that he was in on May 26. Two other people died in the attack.
Korenkov underwent three operations at a U.S. military hospital in Baghdad, and then was sent to Moscow, where he underwent yet another operation, Rybinsky was quoted as saying.
“But the doctors said that not operating on him was out of the question,” he was quoted as saying. Korenkov’s family will receive compensation, he added.
After the May attack, Interenergoservis evacuated 220 of its employees, including citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. |
