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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daniel Boffey in Dnipro and Helen Sullivan

Russian ‘double tap’ missile strike kills seven near hotel used by journalists

The identity of a woman who was among five civilians and emergency workers critically injured in a “double tap” missile strike that killed seven people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk remains a mystery, the head of the regional hospital has said.

Serhiy Ryzhenko, the director of the Mechnikov hospital in Dnipro, 115 miles (185km) west of the struck city, said his surgeons had started working on the wounded from 3am on Tuesday but that the lives of four of the five most serious cases were still in the balance.

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