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Reuters
Health
Max Hunder

Cholera and other diseases could kill thousands in Ukraine's Mariupol - mayor

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: People walk past a residential building heavily damaged during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko/File Photo/File Photo

Cholera and other deadly diseases could kill thousands of people in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol as corpses lie uncollected and summer brings warmer weather, its mayor said on Friday.

Mayor Vadym Boichenko said wells had been contaminated by the corpses of people killed during weeks of Russian bombardment and siege, and that the collection of bodies by the city's Russian occupiers was proceeding slowly.

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