The death toll from a weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 40.
The Associated PressEmergency personnel work at the site where an apartment block was heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Monday.About 1,700 people lived in the multi-storey building, and search and rescue crews have worked nonstop since Saturday's strike to locate victims and survivors in the wreckage. The regional administration said 39 people have been rescued so far and 30 more remain missing. Authorities said at least 75 were wounded.
He told The Associated Press that he knew people who died under the rubble. One of his son's classmates lost her parents."All of us could be in that place," local resident Iryna Skrypnyk said.
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