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Russia bombs high-rise building in Kharkiv: Number of killed increases

Russia bombs high-rise building in Kharkiv: Number of killed increases Photo: 5 people have already been killed in Kharkiv after a Russisn air strike on a high-rise building on September 24 (facebook.com/DSNSKHARKIV)
Author: Liliana Oleniak

The death toll from the air strike on a high-rise building in Kharkiv on September 24 has risen to 5. One of the victims died in hospital, according to the Prosecutor General's Office.

“Unfortunately, a 72-year-old woman, a resident of a nine-story building in the Kyiv district of Kharkiv, which was hit by a Russian explosive aerial bomb, died in hospital,” the report says.

Russian shelling of Kharkiv

Russian troops dropped bombs on Kharkiv on September 24. One of them fell on a high-rise building in the Kyiv district, several floors folded.

Initially, it was reported that 3 people were killed and 28 injured. On September 25, it became known that one more person might be under the rubble. Later, rescuers managed to find a killed woman under the rubble of a residential building in Kharkiv. As of September 25, 4 people were known to have been killed in Kharkiv.