Two children reported dead after Sloviansk shelling

World June 10, 2014, 14:59

A militia representative told ITAR-TASS that there had been victims in Monday's shelling of the city and four houses had been damaged

DONETSK, June 10. /ITAR-TASS/. Two children have died in Ukrainian military shelling of Sloviansk, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, according to Ilya Suzdalev, spokesperson for the Donetsk Regional State Administration.

“We have information that two children were killed — a 12-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl,” Suzdalev specified, adding that they died from fragmentation wounds.

A militia representative told ITAR-TASS that there had been victims in Monday's shelling of the city and four houses had been damaged.

“People are being killed every day. The death toll keeps growing,” Stella Khorosheva, spokesperson for Sloviansk's people's mayor, said.

“Ukrainian law-enforcers resumed shelling of Sloviansk late on Monday,” she said. “Several shells exploded in the city center.”

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