Jochen Piest was a correspondent for the German

Germany

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 newsmagazine

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 Stern

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On January 10, 1995, Piest was killed in a suicide attack

Suicide attack

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 by a Chechen

Chechen people

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 rebel against a Russia

Russia

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n mine-clearing unit in the village of Chervlyonna, about 24 kilometers northeast of the Chechen capital, Grozny

Grozny

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. Piest was fatally hit by three bullets, while a Rossiskaya Gazeta correspondent Vladimir Sorokin

Vladimir Sorokin

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was wounded in the attack. The gunman died when the locomotive collided with the military train.