Russian TV reporter dies after Lugansk shelling injuries

Russian journalist Igor Kornelyuk, who was earlier wounded in a shelling attack near Lugansk, has succumbed to his injuries and passed away on the operating table, a doctor at the hospital told RT.

The doctor told RT that "sadly, he has passed away."

Just minutes ago Kornelyuk, a reporter for the Russian channel Rossiya, was in critical condition and had been receiving phone calls from Moscow. The attending doctor, however, had been answering his calls.

The Rossiya crew currently at the hospital had been taken to the scene of the shelling by taxi.

They were escorted by the self-defense forces in the village of Mirny and headed toward a local checkpoint.

Their position was then shelled and the self-defense forces told the crew to head for safety.

A local resident who witnessed the shelling said that a mine had apparently detonated right next to a group of journalists, of which the Rossiya crew was a part.

• “Our hospital is receiving many wounded as the shelling continues,” a local doctor told RT over the phone.

Sources: RT -indian.ruvr.ru
17/6/14
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