Egil Tynæs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian doctor and activist
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Place of Birth: Lillehammer, Oppland, Norway
About Egil Tynæs
- Egil Kristian Tynæs (born August 12, 1941 in Lillehammer), was a Norwegian anthroposophical doctor, senior physician at the Municipal Clinic in Bergen and a humanitarian aid worker.
- On June 2, 2004 in Badghis, Afghanistan Tynæs and four others (Afghans Fasil Ahmad and Besmillah, Belgian Helene de Beir, and Dutchman Willem Kwint) were killed in an ambush whilst working for the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières.Tynæs worked in his everyday life as a senior doctor at the Municipal Polyclinic in Bergen, Norway.
- He undertook two assignments for Médecins Sans Frontières.
- He worked for MSF-Switzerland in 2002 in Baharak, Afghanistan and in 2004 for MSF-Netherlands in Badghis.
- There, he worked on a tuberculosis project and trained local medical staff.
- He was killed on the final date of his assignment.
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