RUSSIA: 85 RUSSIAN NATIONALS EVACUATED FROM IRAQ ARRIVE BACK IN MOSCOW

Record ID: 648706

  • Title: RUSSIA: 85 RUSSIAN NATIONALS EVACUATED FROM IRAQ ARRIVE BACK IN MOSCOW
  • Date: 27th May 2004
  • Summary: (U6) ZHUKOVSKY AIRPORT, 50KM EAST OF MOSCOW, RUSSIA (MAY 27, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE VIEW OF ILYUSHIN-76 PLANE ON TARMAC 0.08 2. SLV: PLANE/ EMERGENCY STAFF/ AMBULANCE/ COFFIN CARRYING BODY OF ONE OF TWO RUSSIAN NATIONALS KILLE DIN IRAQ BEING LOADED INTO VEHICLE 0.20 3. VARIOUS OF RUSSIANS INJURED IN BAGHDAD ATTACK BEING HELPED OFF PLANE INTO WAITING AMBULANCES (5 SHOTS) 1.13 4. SOLDIERS AROUND PLANE 1.17 5. AMBULANCE DRIVING OFF 1.25 6. VARIOUS: OTHER RUSSIANS EVACUATED FROM IRAQ BOARDING BUS (3 SHOTS) 2.04 7. SCU: PEOPLE ABOARD BUS 2.09 8. WS: BUS CARRYING EVACUATED RUSSIANS DRIVING AWAY FROM AIRPORT 2.28 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: ZHUKOVSKY AIRPORT, 50 KM EAST OF MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA7KY56QJ3NFHDPGA6MW1GUHLNK
  • Story Text: Russians evacuated from Iraq arrive back in Moscow.


    Some 85 Russian nationals evacuated from Iraq
    arrived in Moscow on Thursday (May 27), aboard a flight
    organised by Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations.

    The flight was organised after two engineers from a
    Russian company and two Iraqis were killed when their bus
    was attacked as it left Baghdad's Dora power station on
    Wednesday (May 26). Five other employees of Russia's
    Interenergoservis company were wounded.

    Despite Moscow's vocal opposition to the U.S.

    occupation, Russians working on Iraqi power stations have
    been targeted more than once. One was killed and two
    kidnapped earlier this month.

    Coffins carrying the bodies of the two engineers killed
    were flown back to Moscow's Zhukovsky airport aboard
    Thursday's evacuation flight, along with some of those
    injured in the attack.

    Two more evacuation flights are planned for Friday
    (May 28), set to bring back another 150 specialists working
    for Interenergoservis in Iraq.



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