Jochen Piest
German journalist
Intro | German journalist | |
Places | Germany | |
was | Journalist | |
Work field | Journalism | |
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Birth | 8 February 1964, Bad Honnef | |
Death | 1 January 1995 (aged 30 years) |
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.