April 23 (Reuters) – A Russian drone attack overnight on Thursday in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Dnipro killed three people and injured another 10, including two children, Ukrainian officials said.
The strike partially wrecked a 13-storey apartment building, emergency services said. It also triggered fires that damaged an administrative building, cars and a shop, they said.
“The Russians directed drones at a residential area. When people and their families were sleeping in their beds,” Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk region council, said on Telegram.
The regional governor, Oleksandr Hanzha, writing on Telegram, said the body of another person was found in the ruined apartment building, bringing to three the toll of those killed.
Four people were being treated in hospital, including the two wounded children – girls aged 9 and 14, he said.
Officials posted photos of the aftermath of the attack, showing the apartment building with a gaping hole in its middle, wrecked balconies, broken windows, and shoes scattered on a lawn.
Earlier photos showed apartments ablaze and emergency crews using extendable ladders with a bucket to bring the flames under control.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski, Anna Pruchnicka; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Gareth Jones)
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