Doctors reveal details of Security Zone casualty

The bullet that hit a young man in an incident in the Security Zone over the weekend pierced his spinal cord and damaged two large veins, injuries that are considered “incompatible with life”, National Emergency Service's spokesman Petru Cravet told Info-Prim Neo. Usually people die immediately when such injuries occur, but the 18-year-old Vadim Pisari lived almost two hours more due to his young age and good physical condition. The Emergency Service was called to respond to the incident by a passer-by at 7:36 AM on Sunday. At 8:21 the man was brought to the hospital and immediately subjected to surgery, but he died one hour after the operation. Besides the spinal injury, the man sustained heavy internal bleeding as a result of the damaged inferior vena cava and hepatic portal vein. According to locals, the body will be transferred home today and the funeral will take place on Tuesday or Wednesday. On Sunday morning, Vadim Pisari was shot dead by a Russian peacekeeping officer in the buffer zone between the separatist region of Transnistria and Moldova proper as he was driving his car through a checkpoint near Chisinau's suburban town of Vadul lui Voda and failed to stop when summoned. The officer reportedly fired several Kalashnikov shots in the air before shooting at the car and hitting the man in the back.