Jörg Armbruster, a correspondent for the
German public broadcaster ARD, was seriously injured
by gunfire during a military clash in Aleppo on March 29, 2013, according to
news reports. After emergency surgery
inside Syria on the same day, Armbruster was transferred by ambulance to Turkey,
where he was treated by an emergency medical team. After his condition stabilized,
he was evacuated
to Stuttgart on April 1, according to the ARD subsidiary SWR.
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