Published: 05:27 PM, 23 November 2022
Newborn killed in Russian strike on Ukraine maternity ward: rescuers
A newborn baby was killed following a
Russian strike that hit a maternity ward in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia
region, which Moscow claims to have annexed, Ukrainian emergency services
said Wednesday.
Overnight on Tuesday to Wednesday, "in the city of Vilniansk in Zaporizhzhia
region, as a result of a rocket attack on the territory of the local
hospital, the two-storey building of the maternity ward was destroyed,"
rescuers said on social media.
There was "a woman with a newborn baby as well as a doctor" inside the
building, they added.
"As a result of the attack, a baby born in 2022 died. The woman and doctor
were rescued from the rubble," rescuers said, adding that according to
preliminary information there was nobody else trapped under the debris.
The emergency services distributed a video of rescuers working to free a man
trapped waist-deep in the rubble of what appears to be the destroyed
maternity ward.
