Jochen Piest, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jochen Piest

German journalist

Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1964

Place of Birth: Bad Honnef, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1995

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jochen Piest was a correspondent for the German newsmagazine Stern. On 10 January 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.