Ukrainian school struck by devastating bomb blast as 60 feared dead - Zelensky confirms tragedy
1The Luhansk region’s Governor Serhiy Gaidai had earlier stated that about 90 people were sheltering in the school in Bilohorivka. He said that after the Russian bomb hit it on Saturday, setting it ablaze, there was “almost no hope” for any survivors. The region has been the site of fierce fighting between Ukrainian troops and Russian separatists, now reinforced by troops from the Kremlin.
Mr Gaidai said via Telegram of the bombed school: “There is almost no hope that anyone survived. The aerial bomb exploded in the middle (of the building).
“In the school, there were approximately 90 people, 27 were rescued.
“About 60 people were probably killed."
He said that almost the entire village had been sheltering in the basement of the school, adding that it took firefighters three hours to extinguish the blaze.
The final death toll would only be clear once the rubble had cleared, the governor said.
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