Attack on Dnipro: death toll rises to 40 people
The death toll has risen to 40 people, including three children, following a missile attack on a high-rise building in Dnipro, as of Monday morning.
Source: Valentyn Reznichenko Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration; National Police, State Emergency Service of Ukraine
Details: In the morning, Reznichenko reported 35 victims.
According to the police, as of 10:30:
- 36 people, including two children, had been killed;
- 75 people, including 15 children, had been wounded;
- 39 people, including six children, had been rescued.
Emergency search and rescue operations continue.
Updated at 13:20: Emergency workers reported that as of 13:00, 16 January, 39 people (including 6 children) were rescued, 40 people (including 3 children) were killed, and another 75 (including 14 children) were injured. 46 reports of missing persons have been received, and 12 missing people have been found.
Psychologists of the State Emergencies Service provided assistance to 98 victims. Search and rescue operations and dismantling of dangerous structural elements continue. Workers of utility services have removed more than 8,000 tonnes of construction rubble and 41 damaged vehicles.
Background:
- Russians hit a multi-storey residential building in Dnipro during a large-scale missile attack on Saturday, 14 December.
- The Russians launched the attack using a Kh-22 missile designed to destroy aircraft carrier groups at sea.
- Dnipro city authorities announced three days of mourning for those killed in the Russian missile attack.
- As of Sunday evening, 30 people were known to have died in the Russian missile attack on a residential building in the city of Dnipro.
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