Comatose Bulgarian Ranger Injured by Taliban Upgraded to Stable

Politics » DEFENSE | February 6, 2010, Saturday // 17:14
Comatose Bulgarian Ranger Injured by Taliban Upgraded to Stable: Comatose Bulgarian Ranger Injured by Taliban Upgraded to Stable Nikolay Petrov, Head of the Emergency Care Unit at the Military Medical Academy, reported Saturday 3 Bulgarian rangers, injured during a Taliban rocket attack in Kandahar, are in stable condition. Photo by BGNES

All 3 Bulgarian rangers, injured during a Taliban rocket attack in Kandahar, are in stable condition.

The information was reported Saturday by Nikolay Petrov, Head of the Emergency Care Unit at the Military Medical Academy.

The 3 were transferred to Sofia late Friday from the US military hospital in Landschtul, Germany to Sofia.

Sergeant Alexander Alexandrov, who sustained the most serious injuries, remains in a coma, and is still in critical, but stable condition. The doctors now say his life is out of danger.

The other two - Corporal Yordan Petkov, who has stomach wounds, and Private, Yavor Ivanov, with leg and ankle injuries are in stable condition.

Petkov might require another stomach surgery, while Alexandrov’s treatment will be postponed for a week, the doctor informs, adding the decision to move the injured from Germany has been the right one.

4 Bulgarian rangers were injured, 3 of them seriously, during a Taliban rocket attack on the Kandahar airport in Afghanistan on January 24.

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