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Rescuers pull body of eighteen-month-old child from under rubble in Kryvyi Rih

Saturday, 17 December 2022, 06:47
Rescuers pull body of eighteen-month-old child from under rubble in Kryvyi Rih

Rescuers have pulled the body of a dead one-and-a-half-year-old boy from under the rubble of a house destroyed by a Russian missile overnight on 16-17 December in Kryvyi Rih.

Source: Valentyn Reznichenko, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration

Quote: "In Kryvyi Rih after midnight, rescue workers pulled the body of an eighteen-month-old boy from under the rubble of a house destroyed by a Russian missile… 

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Friday's attack on the city claimed four lives. The Russians killed a 64-year-old woman and a young family with a young son. 13 people were injured; among them are four children."

Details: Russians kept striking the Nikopol district during the night, Reznichenko says. 

Russian occupation troops attacked Chervonohryhorivka and Marhanets hromadas [administrative units designating, in this case, the town of Nikopol and its adjacent territories – ed.] using heavy artillery. 

No civilians were injured this time. 

Houses and power lines have been damaged. 

Background: In the small hours of 16 December, a Russian missile struck a residential building in Kryvyi Rih. 

Later, it was reported that the number of people injured in the attack on the city of Kryvyi Rih on 16 December had risen from 8 to 13. The death toll has risen from 2 to 3. The rubble is still being cleared away.

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