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Death toll rises to 38 after Chasiv Yar residential building strike-UPDATED-1

12 July 2022 18:31 (UTC +04:00)

The death toll from a strike at a residential building in the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine on Saturday has increased to 38, including a child, according to the Emergency Services of Ukraine, APA reports citing CNN.

Nine people were rescued from the rubble and "more than 320 tons of destroyed elements of the building were cleared and disassembled," according to an earlier statement on Facebook from Ukraine's State Service for Emergency Situations in the Donetsk region.

Emergency teams continue to work at the site, it said.

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The death toll has risen to more than 30 following a Russian strike on an apartment block in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine over the weekend, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, APA reports citing CNN.

The residential building in the town of Chasiv Yar was hit on Saturday evening as Russia once again ramped up its assault on cities and towns in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to take control over the entire Donbas area.

At least 34 people died and at least nine were injured in the attack, Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk region military administration, said on his official Telegram channel on Tuesday. One of those who died was a child, he added.

The rescue operation is ongoing and the Emergency Services have cleared about 70% of the rubble, Kyrylenko said.

***09:38

The death toll has reached 33 from a missile strike on a five-storey apartment block in Chasiv Yar, eastern Ukraine, as rescue teams continue to retrieve bodies from the rubble, APA reports citing The Guardian.

According to Kyiv, the residential building was hit by Russian rockets fired from truck-borne systems late on Saturday evening.

The Ukrainian emergency services initially gave a death toll of 10, but as rescue teams continued to comb through the debris that number rose.

The latest victim, a nine-year-old, was reported to have been found around 11.30pm on Monday evening.

"In total, since the beginning of the work, the bodies of 33 dead people, including one child, have been found at the scene, and nine people have been rescued from the rubble. Works are ongoing,” Ukraine’s ministry of internal affairs said in an update, citing state emergency services.

Nine people were saved in the aftermath of the attack while Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the Donetsk region that includes Chasiv Yar, said about three dozen people could still be trapped in the rubble.