Jochen Piest Explained

Jochen Piest (1964 in Bad Honnef – 1995 in Tscherwljonnaja) was a German correspondent for the German newsmagazine Stern.

Life

On 10 January 1995, Piest was killed in a suicide attack by a Chechen rebel against a Russian mine-clearing unit in the village of Chervlyonna, about 24 kilometers northeast of the Chechen capital, Grozny. Piest was fatally hit by three bullets, while a Rossiskaya Gazeta correspondent Vladimir Sorokin was wounded in the attack. The gunman died when the locomotive collided with the military train.[1]

Notes and References

  1. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE4DB143AF931A25752C0A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 Yeltsin Weighs a Shake-Up Of Russian Army Command