23 April 2024,   21:18
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Two killed after shell hit a residential building in Kyiv this morning

Two people were killed and three injured when a shell hit a residential building in north-west Kyiv on Monday morning, Ukraine’s state emergency services has said, writes The Guardian.

“As of 07:40, the bodies of two people were found in a nine-storey residential building, three people were hospitalised, nine people were treated on the spot”, - the agency said in a just after 8am.

A further 15 people were reportedly rescued from the blaze and 63 evacuated with the fire extinguished just before 8am.

The nine-storey residential apartment building reportedly caught fire from Russian shelling after 5am.

Ukraine’s state emergency service published an update at 7.30am local time, saying they received a report of a fire that broke out shortly after 5am in the Obolonskyi district of the capital.

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