18 August 2010, 11:00
18 victims of Pyatigorsk explosion are still in hospitals
Today at 9:52 a.m., a special aircraft of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies took off from the airport of the Caucasian Mineral Waters to take four heavily injured victims of the Pyatigorsk explosions for treatment to Moscow.
As of today's morning, 18 victims were still at the Pyatigorsk Central City Hospital. Nine of them were in the traumatology ward, and nine - at the neurosurgery, the "Interfax" reports.
Four patients in the gravest condition will be placed in Moscow clinics. Three of them will be brought to the Helmholtz clinic of eye diseases; besides, one patient was forwarded to the Stavropol Clinic.
