ARMENIAN OFFICER WOUNDED IN IRAQ HAS TREATMENT IN USA
ARMENPRESS
May 23 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 23, ARMENPRESS: Defense minister Mikael Harutunian
said today the Armenian senior lieutenant Gevorg Nalbandian, who was
wounded while on duty in Iraq in 2006 November, is recuperating at
a US-based hospital.
Gevorg Nalbandian was wounded while on a mission to defuse mines. He
lost his leg in a roadside bomb explosion in which one Polish and one
Slovak soldier were killed in south-central Iraq. The bomb exploded
near the town of Al Kut in Wasit province as a multinational convoy
was returning to base. Another Polish soldier and Gevorg Nalbandian
were wounded in the attack and rushed to hospital by helicopter.
He was first transported to an American military hospital in Germany
for treatment and then to the USA.
The minister said today after recuperation Nalbandian will return to
Armenia to continue his service to the homeland. Harutunian said a
prosthesis was made for him, but he needs time to get adapted to it.
"We have also considered a number of positions which he can hold when
back home," the minister said.