Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-says-30-pro-russian-insurgents-killed-071845546.html
Avakov said Monday that pro-Russia forces in Slovyansk, a city of 125,000, were deploying large-caliber weapons and mortars in the region and there were injured on both sides. Government troops were facing about 800 insurgents, he said.
Is the way it's written grammatically correct? Do we not have to precede the word with the to denote that we are talking about a group of people?
there were injuries on both sides
. Perhaps it would be too much of thes
sound ifinjuries
was used.