Medical experts said Saturday that the two Chinese construction
workers seriously injured in the terrorist attack in Afghanistan,
that killed 11 on June 10, have been out of the infection
period.
After flown back to China, four injured workers in the attack
were sent to the Shandong Provincial Hospital in Ji'nan, capital of
east China's Shandong Province, to be treated.
Medical experts diagnosed that the conditions of Xi Shouzhong,
whose right shank was shattered, and Xu Qisong, who had a bullet
shot into his left leg and out of his hip, were severe, and said on
June 15 that they had potential danger of wound infection in 3-5
days.
"But now, they have passed the period of being infected," said
sources with the hospital.
"I am feeling better day by day," said Xi.
Terrorists stole into the camp of a Chinese road contractor in
Kunduz Province, 250 km (150 miles) north of Kabul, capital of
Afghanistan, on June 10, spraying the workers with gunfire as they
were sleeping in tents.
Eleven Chinese and the camp's sole Afghan armed guard were
killed and five Chinese were injured in the attack, making it the
deadliest on foreign civilians since the fall of the Taliban
regime. One of the five injured has been in Afghanistan for
treatment.
(Xinhua News Agency June 19, 2004)