About Jochen Piest
Lived 1964 – 1995 (aged 30–31). Jochen Piest was a German journalist.
Jochen Piest (1964 in Bad Honnef – 1995 in Tscherwljonnaja) was a German correspondent for the German newsmagazine Stern.
Life On 10 January 1995, Piest was killed in a suicide attack by a Chechen rebel against a Russian mine-clearing unit in the village of Chervlyonna, about 24 kilometers northeast of the Chechen capital, Grozny. Piest was fatally hit by three bullets, while a Rossiskaya Gazeta correspondent Vladimir Sorokin was wounded in the attack. The gunman died when the locomotive collided with the military train.
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Who was Jochen Piest?
German journalist
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Jochen Piest was born on 8 February 1964 in Bad Honnef.
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Jochen Piest died in 1995.
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Jochen Piest was a journalist.
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Jochen Piest was German.
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