Up to 60 feared dead after Russians bomb Luhansk school
Russia’s bombing of a school in the eastern Ukrainian village of Bilohorivka killed two people and left 60 in the debris feared dead, the governor of the Luhansk region said on Sunday.
Governor Serhiy Gaidai said Russian forces dropped a bomb on Saturday afternoon on the school where about 90 people were sheltering, causing a fire that engulfed the building.
“The fire was extinguished after nearly four hours, then the rubble was cleared, and, unfortunately, the bodies of two people were found,” Gaidai wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
“Thirty people were evacuated from the rubble, seven of whom were injured. Sixty people were likely to have died under the rubble of buildings.”
Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
Gaidai wrote on Telegram the “Russian assassins ‘fought’ with unarmed civilians. The racists dropped an air bomb on a school where almost the entire village was hiding. Everyone who did not have time to evacuate. After hitting the club, the basement of the school was the only place of salvation, but the Russians took away from people and this chance.”
Ukraine and the West have accused Russian forces of targeting civilians and war crimes, charges Moscow rejects.
(Reuters / Euronews)