On Nov. 4, 33-year-old anticorruption activist Kateryna Handzyuk died from injuries caused by an acid attack. Gandziuk had been attacked three months earlier outside of her home in Kherson, Ukraine, and had undergone eleven surgeries to recover from the burns.
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Relatives and friends pay the last tribute to Kateryna Gandziuk on Nov. 7, 2018, in Kherson city. A whistleblower municipal official from Kherson, Gandziuk died on Nov. 4 as a result of an acid attack on her on July 31, 2018.
