SOME RUSSIAN POWER PLANT BUILDERS IN IRAQ DECIDE TO STAY

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MOSCOW, May 28 (RIA Novosti) - An Il-62 carrying 89 Interenergoservice experts, including 13 citizens from Ukraine, who worked in Iraq, has landed today in the Ramenskoye aerodrome, reports Viktor Beltsov, deputy chief of the emergency situations ministry press department. The ministry's doctors attended on board the plane to a person gravely injured during the fire attack on the car with Russian experts last Wednesday.

Several dozen associates of the Interenergoservice company decided to stay in Iraq.

Yesterday an IL-76 brought the first group of company workers: 85 Russian citizens, four Ukrainians and one Belorussian; there were also one child, the Russians wounded and the bodies of two people killed during that attack.

Until yesterday Iraq had accounted for 240 Interenergoservice experts. Several officers are to stay to render assistance to two heavily-injured colleagues.

A decision on the evacuation was taken by the Interenergoservice management after a bus carrying the company's workers was attacked Wednesday in Baghdad. As a result of this outrage, two Russian citizens were killed and eight wounded.

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