Two rockets hit a train station in the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, Ukrainian authorities said. More than 30 are dead and more than 100 injured, reports Reuters.
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“It is dead,” the Ukrainian Railways said in a statement. They claim in a new message shortly after there is talk of more than 30 dead and more than 100 injured in the attack.
AFP, which has journalists on site, reports that there are at least 20 dead.
The station is used as a refuge for civilians who have been evacuated from areas under Russian airstrikes. On social media, Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko writes that several thousand were inside the station when the attack took place.
–STATION ATTACK: A man in a police uniform in what is to be a picture from the rocket attacks on the train station in Kramatorsk. Photo: Twitter
Kyrylenko told police and rescue workers at the scene that they fear dozens of people may have been injured or killed in the attack.
On social media, there are pictures that are supposed to be from the train station in Kramatorsk. In the pictures you can see what looks like dead civilians lying among the remains of clothes and belongings. Next to it is luggage someone must have taken to the shelter.
