On the morning of 10 October a guided bomb destroyed part of a five-storey building in Zaporizhzhia: officials report four dead, including a child, and 11 injured, among them two children.
On the morning of 10 October a russian guided aerial bomb hit a multi-storey residential building in Zaporizhzhia. According to updated figures from Ivan Fedorov, co-chair of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Defense Council, four people were killed, including a child, and 11 were injured, two of them children. Volunteers Support Ukraine extends its condolences to the families of the dead and passes on the facts known as of this morning.
At about 5 a.m. the Air Force warned that tactical aircraft had launched guided bombs toward Zaporizhzhia. According to the Kyiv Independent, a five-storey building was hit: part of one entrance was destroyed and structures collapsed down to the second floor. Rescuers pulled a woman and a man from the rubble. Mykhailo Semikin, acting head of the regional military administration, said one more person might still be trapped.
Fedorov specified that the 11 injured include a 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, both in moderate condition. Two victims are in serious condition, seven in moderate condition and two have minor injuries. Four people were hospitalised, five are being treated as outpatients and two are undergoing examinations. At least 26 residential buildings were damaged, 23 apartment blocks and three private houses, in the Shevchenkivskyi and Voznesenivskyi districts. Three buildings were badly damaged, and non-residential buildings were also hit.
The day before, guided bombs had already hit residential areas of Zaporizhzhia, with casualties. Search-and-rescue work at the impact sites was continuing as specialists assessed the damage.
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