ARMENPRESS

ARMENIAN OFFICER BACK HOME AFTER RECUPERATION IN USA

YEREVAN, AUGUST 10, ARMENPRESS: Armenian senior
lieutenant Gevork Nalbandian, who was wounded while on
duty in Iraq in 2006 November, is back home after
recuperating at a US-based hospital. The news was
announced by Seyran Ohanian, chief of the general
staff of the Armenian armed forces yesterday.
He said Gevork Nalbandian has now a position in the
Armenian peacekeeping battalion.
Gevork Nalbandian was wounded while on a mission to
defuse mines in Iraq. He lost his leg in a roadside
bomb explosion in which one Polish and one Slovak
soldier were killed in south-central Iraq. He was
first transported to an American military hospital in
Germany for treatment and then to the USA.