Mother and young daughter killed: death toll from Russian strike on Sumy Oblast rises to four – photos
The death toll from a Russian strike on the Romny hromada in Sumy Oblast on the night of 2-3 July has risen to four, including a mother and her young daughter. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]
Source: Oleh Hryhorov, Head of Sumy Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram; Sumy Oblast Prosecutor's Office; State Emergency Service of Ukraine on Telegram
Quote: "The number of people killed in the Romny hromada following an overnight Russian attack has risen to four. Updated information indicates that the enemy struck a high-rise residential building with an attack drone. The impact triggered a large-scale fire. Tragically, two women, an elderly man and a small child were killed."
Details: Hryhorov noted that the girl was not yet two years old. One of the women killed was her mother.
"Three men were injured in the attack. All of them are receiving the necessary medical treatment," he concluded.
According to the State Emergency Service, a Russian drone struck a one-storey apartment building in Romny on the night of 2-3 July. The fire was only extinguished in the early morning.
Update: The Prosecutor's Office later added that a 26-year-old woman and her young daughter, who was just a little over 18 months old, as well as a 39-year-old woman and a 76-year-old man, had been killed in the attack.
"The child's father is in hospital with burns. Two other people were injured," the Prosecutor's Office said.
Background: It was earlier reported that two women had been killed and one man injured in the Russian drone attack on the Romny hromada in Sumy Oblast.
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