Fatima Khosokov with an eight-year-old daughter, Dzerassa, were badly hit by an explosion and random firing opened by bandits. The girl received a bullet wound in the head, which lost her the right-hand eye. The mother, who covered the girl with her body, was literally lacerated by bullets and fragments. She suffered numerous leg and internal organ wounds, with fragments still lodged in the lungs and in the liver.
At the Moscow Pirogov National Medical and Surgical Center, where they were promptly taken, mother and daughter spent four and a half months, during which Dzerassa underwent several plastic operations, including adding facial bone.
In an interview with this correspondent, Zelimkhan Khosokov, the girl's father who arrived in Tokyo together with his family, expressed his deep gratitude to Japanese doctors and ordinary Japanese who visited the hospital, bringing all kinds of things and voicing sympathy.
"Such a grief is very difficult to experience alone - families died there - and people came to our assistance with full hearts, not leaving us in the lurch," Fatima said.
She said they found themselves in Japan unexpectedly for themselves. The president of the Help Ossetia Children Fund called at the Moscow hospital and offered them an examination in one of the Japanese clinics.
In Kobe, mother and girl underwent a complete investigation, which revealed that Dzerassa had preserved a little portion of her eyeball, which needs removing. But, because of numerous narcosis sessions she underwent before, it was decided to carry out the operation in Japan in a year's time.
