FOCUS: Emergency Workers Rushed to Scene of Russian Missile Attack. Then Another Missile Came.

 

 

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FOCUS: Emergency Workers Rushed to Scene of Russian Missile Attack. Then Another Missile Came.
Marc Santora, Gaëlle Girbes and Victoria Kim, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Nine people, including a rescuer, were killed and dozens more were injured in the successive missile strikes on a small city in eastern Ukraine."

Rescuers completed a search for survivors on Tuesday after a Russian missile strike on a small Ukrainian city on Monday evening that was followed by another 37 minutes later, appearing to target emergency workers responding to the first attack.

The final toll, officials said, was seven people dead, including one rescuer, and 82 injured, including 38 emergency workers and two children. The attack devastated the city of Pokrovsk, which lies about 43 miles to the northwest of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk and 30 miles from the front line.

After the second attack, the search for survivors was suspended overnight out of concern that there could be additional strikes on rescuers, according to Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs. At least 12 multistory buildings, including a hotel, a prosecutor’s office, a pharmacy, shops and two cafes, were damaged, Ukrainian officials said.

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