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An apartment block collapses in a Russian border city after heavy shelling, killing at least 6
https://apnews.com/article/russia-belgorod-shelling-building-collapse-259b543bb479bea475051850e0b8fd2aAn apartment block collapses in a Russian border city after heavy shelling, killing at least 6
Emergency services were scrambling in the Russian border-adjacent city of Belgorod after a Ukrainian projectile hit caused a partial collapse of a residential building.
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 12:17 PM EDT, May 12, 2024
An apartment block partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod on Sunday, leaving at least six dead and 20 injured. Officials blamed Ukrainian shelling for the building’s destruction.
Online footage showed rescuers searching for survivors among the remnants of the building’s stairwell, then fleeing the scene as part of the roof crashed to the ground. Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said that six bodies had been recovered from the rubble so far.
In a statement, Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s top law enforcement agency, said the 10-story block had been hit by Ukrainian shelling.
The Russian Defense Ministry later wrote on social media that the building had been damaged by fragments of a downed Tochka-U TRC missile. It also said that air defenses had shot down several more rockets over the Belgorod region, as well as two drones that were destroyed in a separate incident later Sunday.
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Emergency services were scrambling in the Russian border-adjacent city of Belgorod after a Ukrainian projectile hit caused a partial collapse of a residential building.
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 12:17 PM EDT, May 12, 2024
An apartment block partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod on Sunday, leaving at least six dead and 20 injured. Officials blamed Ukrainian shelling for the building’s destruction.
Online footage showed rescuers searching for survivors among the remnants of the building’s stairwell, then fleeing the scene as part of the roof crashed to the ground. Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said that six bodies had been recovered from the rubble so far.
In a statement, Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s top law enforcement agency, said the 10-story block had been hit by Ukrainian shelling.
The Russian Defense Ministry later wrote on social media that the building had been damaged by fragments of a downed Tochka-U TRC missile. It also said that air defenses had shot down several more rockets over the Belgorod region, as well as two drones that were destroyed in a separate incident later Sunday.
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