Russian strike on Dnipro leaves three rescued from collapsed building
Photo: emergency responders continue fighting fires (facebook.com/DSNS.GOV.UA)
Overnight on September 9, Russian forces attacked Dnipro - as a result of the strike, several fires broke out, including at a construction materials warehouse and in a private house, according to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Hanzha.
As a result of the strike on Dnipro, several fires broke out - the fire engulfed a construction materials warehouse and a private house. Immediately after the strike, it became known that people might be in the basement of the damaged building.
All emergency services responded to the scene promptly.
Within minutes of the report about possible casualties, rescuers extracted three people who had been hiding in the house's basement from under the rubble. Medics are already providing them with necessary assistance.
Photo: house damaged as a result of Russian strike (t.me/dnipropetrovskaODA)
Firefighting at the attack site is still ongoing.
Updated 6:35
The Regional Military Administration reported that two people were hospitalized as a result of Russia's attack on Dnipro - a 51-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman. A 15-year-old boy, whom rescuers extracted from the building damaged by the strike, does not require hospitalization.
More than 10 private houses and at least one apartment building have been damaged in the city.
The previous days in the Dnipropetrovsk region were also uneasy - on September 6, as a result of massive attacks on four districts of the region, one person was killed, and six others were injured.
And on September 5, Russians struck Kamianske - the death toll there rose to four killed, with five more people injured.
In addition, on September 2, the enemy launched an air strike on Dnipro - at that time, at least two people were killed in the city, and food warehouses of a retail chain were damaged.
On the same day, occupiers attacked a passenger train in the Dnipropetrovsk region with a drone; however, thanks to timely evacuation, passengers and railway workers were not injured.
