Jochen Piest

German journalist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroGerman journalist
PlacesGermany
wasJournalist
Work fieldJournalism
Gender
Male
Birth8 February 1964, Bad Honnef
Death1 January 1995 (aged 30 years)
The details

Biography

Jochen Piest was a correspondent for the German newsmagazine Stern.
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.

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