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Evacuation buses have not reached pickup point yet - Mariupol council

A girl looks through a bus window as civilians from Mariupol, including evacuees from Azovstal steel plant, travel in a convoy to Zaporizhzhia, during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the Donetsk Region, Ukraine May 2, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

Buses seeking to evacuate more civilians from Mariupol have not yet reached the agreed pickup point, the city council said on Monday, contradicting an earlier report that they had left the devastated port city in southeast Ukraine.

The city council urged the evacuees to remain in place. It was not immediately clear what had caused the delay.

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