Three killed, 38 injured in Russian attack on Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih
Al Jazeera
Ten children are among those injured in the missile attack on apartment buildings as rescue teams search for survivors.
A Russian missile has hit two apartment buildings in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, killing three people and injuring at least 38, with rescue teams sifting through rubble in a night-time search for survivors.
Serhiy Lysak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, put the provisional injury toll from the attack on Tuesday at 28 adults and 10 children.
“Two buildings were hit, one five storeys, one nine storeys,” Lysak wrote on Telegram.
“The number of injured is constantly rising as is the number of children injured.”
Video of the scene showed a blaze that erupted at the top of one apartment block and rescue teams carrying the injured out of shattered building entrances.
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