MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. A 16-year-old girl was killed as a rocket hit a private home in Belgorod, while her father has been hospitalized with wounds, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

"Unfortunately, a teenage girl, 16, was killed as a private home where she stayed caught fire after a rocket attack," Gladkov wrote on his Telelgram channel. The girl’s father has been hospitalized with traumatic brain injury and body burns, the official added.

According to Gladkov, a blaze has been put out in two private homes in the city. Windows in three residential blocks and two private homes have been broken, and eight cars were damaged in the attack, he added.