IRRC No. 318

Providing support for Red Cross volunteers and other humanitarian workers following a security incident or a disaster

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Abstract
In the early hours of 17 December 1996, six members of the Red Cross team working at the ICRC hospital in Novye Atagi, Chechnya, were murdered in their sleep by a group of masked men using weapons fitted with silencers. A seventh delegate was wounded but managed to escape with his life.

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