Ukraine’s State Emergency Service: death toll following missile strikes on city of Zaporizhzhia rises to 17

As a result of missile strikes on Ukraine’s city of Zaporizhzhia carried out on 6 October, at least 17 people were killed, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reports.

“In total, 17 people were killed (one of them was a child, and one person died in a hospital), 21 people were rescued, 12 of them were hospitalised,” the message states. 

At one address, 13 bodies, including one killed child, were pulled out from the rubble of a five-storey building. Six people were rescued, four of them were hospitalised. 

At the second address, four bodies were pulled out from the rubble, while 15 people were rescued. Out of them, eight were hospitalised. 

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service added that the rescue operation was still ongoing. 

On the morning of 6 October, head of the Zaporizhzhia region administration Oleksandr 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.

According to 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 back then.