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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lorenzo Tondo in Kyiv

Dozens of Bucha civilians were killed by metal darts from Russian artillery

A small metal dart called a fléchette.
A small metal dart, called fléchette, found embedded in the body of man killed in Bucha. Photograph: Alessio Mamo

Dozens of civilians who died during the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian city of Bucha were killed by tiny metal arrows from shells of a type fired by Russian artillery, forensic doctors have said.

Pathologists and coroners who are carrying out postmortems on bodies found in mass graves in the region north of Kyiv, where occupying Russian forces have been accused of atrocities, said they had found small metal darts, called fléchettes, embedded in people’s heads and chests.

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