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UPDATED: 21:11, June 15, 2004
Workers injured in Afghan attack in stable condition:experts
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Medical experts said Tuesday that the four Chinese construction workers injured in the terrorist attack in Afghanistan that killed 11 on Thursday are in stable condition after they flew back Monday night.

Upon their arrival in Ji'nan, capital of east China's Shandong province, the four workers were sent to the Shandong Provincial Hospital immediately.

Overnight group consultation of 15 medical experts diagnosed that the conditions of Xi Shouzhong from Shandong province, whose right shin was shattered, and Xu Qisong from east China's Jiangxi province, who had a bullet shot into his left leg and out of his hip, were severe.

The condition of Jiang Changquan from Jiangxi province, who hada bullet scrape his head and injure his scalp, is less severe. And Wang Jinsheng is slightly injured with the soft tissue of his right arm wounded by a bullet, said Zhou Dongsheng, a surgeon withthe hospital.

At present, the four injured workers are in stable condition, but potential danger of wound infection of the two severely injured still exists, noted Zhou.

After passing three to five days of infection period, added Zhou, they are expected to heal and be left with no deformity.

As for the other two whose injuries are less severe, they will recover soon, Zhou said.

Terrorists stole into the camp of a Chinese road contractor in Kunduz province, 250 km (150 miles) north of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan on Thursday, spraying the workers with gunfire as they slept in a row of tents.

Eleven Chinese and the camp's sole Afghan armed guard were killed and five Chinese were injured in the attack, making it the deadliest on foreign civilians since the fall of the Taliban regime.

Bodies of the 11 killed and four of the injured in the attack were flown back to China on Monday. The other injured, Zheng Mingyi from Shandong province, chose to stay in Afghanistan for treatment.

Source: Xinhua

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