Rocket fire kills at least 5 near hospital in Donetsk [View all]
Source: AP-Excite
By BALINT SZLANKO and YURAS KARMANAU
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Rocket salvoes hit a previously safe section of Ukraine's rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing at least five people and damaging a hospital, six schools and five kindergartens, rebels said.
The fighting between Russia-backed separatists and government troops in eastern Ukraine escalated sharply in January, with more than 220 civilians killed in the past three weeks alone, according to the United Nations. The world body has sharply criticized both sides for indiscriminate shelling that is causing civilian deaths.
The rebel-run Donetsk News Agency, citing police, reported five people killed by shelling around the hospital in the city's western Tekstilshchik district. City officials in Donetsk said the number of casualties could not immediately be established.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene shortly after the attack found one body covered by a sheet on the ground near a crater from a projectile. The hospital was damaged by shrapnel and its windows were shattered.
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In this screen shot made available by RU-RTR, pro-Russia rebels cover a body of a victim outside clinic 27, damaged after shelling, in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. Heavy shelling in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday afternoon killed at least five people and damaged a hospital, six schools and five kindergartens, local officials said. (AP Photo/RU-RTR) TV OUT
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