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Terror victims back, stabilized in hospital Four Chinese workers injured in a terrorist attack in Afghanistan on June 10 are now stabilized at the Shangdong Provincial Hospital. The workers arrived back in Jinan of East China's Shandong Province late Monday evening after about a seven-hour flight from the Afghan capital of Kabul.
"Two of them are seriously injured. One suffered fracture in his right leg and the other was wounded by a bullet penetrating one of his legs into his buttocks," said Qin Chengyong, vice-president of the hospital. "There are still potential risks of loss of life if their infections cannot be curbed," Qin added. He said the other two patients were slightly wounded with one suffering scrape to his head and the other with soft tissue injuries. Eleven Chinese workers were killed and five injured last Thursday in the northeast Afghan province of Kunduz when terrorists stole into the camp of a Chinese road construction site and sprayed workers with gunfire as they slept in tents. The attack was the deadliest on foreign civilians since the fall of the Taliban regime. The charter plane carrying bodies of the 11 Chinese workers killed in the attack arrived Monday night in Nanchang, provincial capital of East China's Jiangxi. The remains, which had been kept in an army hospital in Afghanistan, were placed in the coffins and taken straight to the airport for a brief farewell ceremony, which was attended by Chinese embassy staff, the Chinese Government delegation and corporation representatives along with Afghan officials. The other Chinese worker, who was also injured in the attack, was discharged from an Afghan hospital on Sunday and volunteered to continue his work in Afghanistan. A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tuesday that China will not waver on its anti-terrorism position. "Nor will China change its determination to work with other countries to fight against terrorism," she said at a regular news briefing Tuesday. "China's stance on participating in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, Iraq and other regions will not alter either," she added. The other injured worker, Zheng Mingyi, also from Shandong Province, and whose brother Zheng Mingwen died in the attack, suffered emotional trauma and remains in Afghanistan, said Li Peishan. Li is a press officer with the China Railway Shisiju Group Corporation, the employer of the men working in Afghanistan. The remains of Zheng Mingwen who is from Jiangxi, along with the coffins of the other 10 victims, arrived in Nanchang peacefully, said Li. Sheng's family members have arrived in Nanchang, capital city of Jiangxi. They said they will take Zheng's ashes back to his hometown -- the Xinxing Village in Zhucheng, Shandong Province. Wang Muliang, head of the Xinxing Village, said villagers will hold a traditional funeral for Zheng and bury his ashes under ground. The rest of the dead workers were all natives of Guangfeng County in Jiangxi Province. Li said a dozen of representatives from his and his parent company, as well as the ministries of foreign affairs and commerce, have stayed in Afghanistan and are negotiating with the Afghan side on compensation issues. So far, Afghan military forces have arrested 10 suspects in connection with the terrorist attack. The motive behind the attack is still under investigation. |
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