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Toll from Dnipro strike in Ukraine rises to 35

Published: 16 Jan 2023 - 11:53 am | Last Updated: 16 Jan 2023 - 11:53 am
Emergency personnel work at the site where an apartment block was heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Emergency personnel work at the site where an apartment block was heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

AFP

Kyiv, Ukraine: A weekend strike on a residential building in Ukraine's centre-east city of Dnipro killed at least 35 people, including two children, the regional governor said Monday as rescue operations continued.

"As of now, the enemy attack took the lives of 35 residents of the building, including two children. Thirty nine people were saved, 75 were injured," Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko said on social media.

He added that the "fate of another 35 residents of the building is unknown" as the search for survivors was continuing nearly 40 hours after the strike.

An earlier toll from rescuers had stood at 30.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday condemned the Russian people's "cowardly silence" over the attack, noting that Ukraine had received messages of sympathy from around the world over "this terror."