IRRC No. 318
Providing support for Red Cross volunteers and other humanitarian workers following a security incident or a disaster
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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.