28 October 2003
WWII shell explosion injures two senior officials in Brest region
Two senior officials in the Baranovichi district, Brest region, were severely injured by an accidental shell explosion on Saturday.
Sergei Gerushchenko, director of the Baranovichi forestry, sustained multiple wounds as a World War II shell, lurking underground, went off underneath the fire that they made while hunting in their home
area, the Brest regional police department said. His companion, Nikolai Mitilovich, chairman of the Baranovichi District Soviet, suffered less.
The 46-year-old Gerushchenko was reportedly taken to a hospital in Baranovichi with lacerations in his back, buttocks and legs and "an open fracture of his right arm," and the 49-year-old Mitilovich with a
wound in his right wrist.
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