The death toll of Thursday’s early rocket strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has risen to 13, according to a Ukrainian official.
“(There are) 13 dead, including a little child, as a result of a rocket strike at Zaporizhzhia on March 2,” Anatoliy Kurtiev, secretary of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council, said in an update on Telegram Sunday.
Following Russia’s shelling of the high-rise residential building, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, posted on Telegram Thursday that “people were sleeping at home, but for terrorists, residential buildings are also ‘military targets.'”
According to the update, five people have been reported missing and four people remain in hospital.
As of 11 a.m. local time (4 a.m. ET) Sunday, rescuers in Zaporizhzhia continued “to search for people under the rubble and dismantle dangerous elements of the building around the clock,” Kurtiev added.
On the day of the strike, Ukrainian authorities said a pregnant woman was among the people rescued from the building.
Source – CNN
