The director of the hospital in Działdowo (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship), where a woman with a head wound was admitted on Friday, says that the patient was very lucky. Nothing serious happened to her and after a short observation she was discharged home. According to the director of the facility, Ireneusz Weryk, the object that doctors removed from the woman's body was a bullet.
The incident took place on Friday (December 6) in a forest complex in Nibork Drugi in the Nidzica poviat, near the shooting range where police exercises were taking place. The services received a report from a woman who was injured by an unidentified object.
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The injured person was taken to the hospital in Działdowo. The director of the facility does not hide in an interview with tvn24.pl that the injured party was very lucky.
– The patient's injuries were not serious. The woman was extremely lucky. This object came to rest between the skin and the skull bone. He had to have little energy, he had to brake hard. She was not in the operating theater but in the treatment room. The object was removed and the patient left the hospital after a short observation – explains Ireneusz Weryk, director of the Działdowo facility.
– It's all a matter of nomenclature. We think it was a bullet. As far as I know, the police are officially talking about the facility. We immediately gave them this metal object, which looked like a bullet to us, because they asked for it – adds the doctor.
The case is being investigated by the prosecutor's office
The investigation into this case is being conducted by the District Prosecutor's Office in Olsztyn.
– The incident took place on Friday in the morning near a sports shooting range, where police officers from the nearby headquarters were shooting. The victim reported that she suffered head injuries. She was taken away by medical services. The prosecutor inspected the scene of the incident on site. Traces, documentation regarding the shooting range and the shootings carried out there, as well as the weapons used by the training policemen were seized. They were also interrogated by the prosecutor – confirmed prosecutor Daniel Brodowski, press spokesman for the District Prosecutor's Office in Olsztyn.
He added that it cannot yet be clearly confirmed whether it was a bullet from the shooting range. – Further evidentiary activities are ongoing in this case. We need expert opinions, but it is probable. As for the plans to qualify this event, let's wait until the prosecutor's office receives these materials and reads the entire thing, the prosecutor emphasized.
He noted that the act would most likely be classified by investigators as an exposure to direct danger to life or health.
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