With her skull broken and shrapnel in her brain, it took two weeks before she could speak again.
Victims lost limbs and suffered broken bones, shrapnel wounds and ruptured eardrums.
"I was in a school where two children were brought on a wheelbarrow, and these children had their legs broken by shrapnel from aerial bombardment, and they had not received medication for almost a week," he said.
If constructed properly, the grenade should not break into shrapnel, but split along the seam and violently spray the inside mixture outwards.
Six weeks later, another I.E.D. tore through Rose's vehicle, causing another head injury, a broken back and shrapnel wounds.
The NTSB said that they had found no evidence that the aeroplane's engines had broken up, sending shrapnel into nearby control systems, nor any evidence of a collision with a bird.
Many died, some were captured, and about 100 soldiers survived, often "with legs broken or smashed, with shrapnel in our hands, legs, bodies, with smashed teeth and broken noses", he said.
She had extensive, horrendous injuries caused by the shrapnel, including broken bones and tissue damage.
Yekaterina Solovyova, 36, stepped off at Lubyanka station, where shrapnel had broken tiles and carved golf-ball-size chunks out of the marble walls of the station.
I hoarded bandages, gauzes, even the field dressings that I had saved from Chechnya which were meant to be pressed against bullet holes to staunch the blood, and I read first aid guides of how to remove bullets and shrapnel, set broken bones and survive chemical attacks.
