Russian Journalist Wounded, Survives Shelling in Lebanon
Created: 02.08.2006 12:56 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:56 MSK
MosNews
A Komsomolsaya Pravda newspaper correspondent has been wounded during a shelling
in Lebanon on Sunday. An unprecedented amount of about 100
Israeli rockets hit the city of Kiryat Shmon on July 30, according to newspaper reports.
”It takes two minutes for a rocket to reach Haifa, and they have time to turn on alarms. But it takes only 20 seconds for an Israeli rocket to reach Lebanon,” Yaroslava Tankova said.
”The first rocket hit Kiryat Shmon at 6:00 a.m. Five minutes later another one exploded, then another one,” Tankova recalls. ”I was able to roll down to the air-raid shelter.”
After the end of the raid at 9:00 am local time the Russian journalist had come out of the refuge and decided to take a look at the city to assess the consequences of the shelling. She headed to the Emergency Service building when a terrifying whistle sounded above and the earth shuddered again.
”I was paralyzed with fright. But it was not a ’mine’ rocket. But maybe it was, I just didn’t notice it. I heard only fizz… an ominous whistle above my head. Then I was tossed up and felt lots of small pieces stick into my skin. Then I lost consciousness,” Tyankova said.
She came to her senses at a hospital. Fortunately the rocket didn’t explode, and she survived. Tankova suffered a concussion of the brain and was wounded with multiple small stones which were scattered when the rocket fell.