Live Grenade in Soldier’s Leg Removed
From Times Wire Reports
Russian doctors operated to remove a live grenade from the leg of a soldier wounded in Chechnya, the armed forces newspaper reported. Doctors and nurses performed the surgery clad in body armor and helmets, and draped flak jackets over the patient, who was hit by a grenade-launcher round in a battle near the southern town of Urus-Martan. The grenade did not explode, but was trapped, still live, in the soldier’s right leg near the knee, according to the military newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda.
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