Jochen Piest

Journalist, Deceased Person

– 1995

9

Who was Jochen Piest?

Jochen Piest was a correspondent for the German newsmagazine Stern.

On January 10, 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.

We need you!

Help us build the largest biographies collection on the web!

Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Died
1995

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

Citation

Use the citation below to add to a bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"Jochen Piest." Biographies.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 7 May 2024. <https://www.biographies.net/people/en/jochen_piest>.

Discuss this Jochen Piest biography with the community:

0 Comments

    Browse Biographies.net