Ukraine’s State Emergency Service: death toll following missile strikes on city of Zaporizhzhia rises to 11

As a result of yesterday’s missile strikes on Ukraine’s city of Zaporizhzhia, 11 people were killed, reports Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.

“At one address, eight bodies were pulled out from the rubble of a five-storey building, six people were rescued, five of them were hospitalised. At another address, three bodies were pulled out from the rubble of a four-storey building, 15 people were rescued, eight of them were hospitalised,” the emergency service reported.

According to head of the Zaporizhzhia region administration Oleksandr Starukh, neither military nor other important objects were located anywhere near the places where the missiles had hit. 

“Only civilian buildings and blocks of flats. During the shelling, civilian infrastructure was the primary target,” he said. 

Yesterday morning, 6 October, Starukh reported that the Russian military had carried out seven missile strikes on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia city. Back then, there was information about two victims. Among the rescued, there was a three-year-old girl who was hospitalised.