Ukraine: Anticorruption activist, Kateryna Handzyuk, dies months after acid attack
It was announced this weekend on the Хто замовив Катю Гандзюк? (Who ordered Katya Gandzjuk?) Facebook page that Ukrainian anticorruption activist, Kateryna Handzyuk has died some three months after being attacked with acid in July.
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According to the post (computer translated):
Katya died this morning. The reason is not the attack of sírčanoû acid.
Dead from the consequences, from the received powder, because Cory had a liter of acid and it killed her.
The Klíníčnu cause of death will show the autopsy.
But he won’t give answers to the question: who killed Cory Gandzûk?
Katya died.
The details will be later. Request not to disturb relatives. Friends for the day will provide more information.
The 33-year-old Handzyuk, a Ukrainian civic activist and adviser to the mayor of the Black Sea port city of Kherson, was attacked by a man who threw approximately a liter of sulfuric acid on her and ran away on July 31. The attacker is still at large. She was a sharp critic of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies.
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She was immediately hospitalized in critical condition. She had 30 percent of her body surface burned, including her upper torso, hands, and face. Handzyuk died Nov 4 in a Kyiv hospital.
The Facebook post announcing her death has thousands of likes and hundreds of comments and condolences.
RIP Katya.
