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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Liz Cookman in Zaporizhzhia

Trapped in a Mariupol hospital: ‘They said anyone who left would be shot’

Burning car outside damaged hospital
A car burns outside the maternity hospital damaged by Russian shelling in Mariupol on 9 March. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

When the husband of a heavily pregnant woman came looking for his wife after the Mariupol maternity hospital attack, describing her by her tattoos and earrings, Alina Buzunar had to tell him that she had died, and took the man to the morgue to identify the body.

“He was absolutely calm until he found her,” she said. “Because he told us that until the last, he hoped it was not her. Then he cried a lot. It was a very sad situation.”

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