Luhansk People's Republic reports casualties in shelling by Ukrainian army

World July 04, 2014, 13:46

A woman was killed and a man was taken to regional hospital with a fragmentation wound by a projectile hitting a residential house in Menzhinsky Street, the press service of Luhansk city council said

LUGANSK, July 04. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukrainian army has delivered several artillery gun strikes on Bolshaya Vergunka, a suburb of the city of Luhansk, overnight to Friday, the press service of the self-proclaimed Luhansk people’s republic said on Friday. “Tanks of militia from the Lugansk people’s republic have moved to Bolshaya Vergunka” and shelled a Ukrainian military formation which was waging fire at the city, the press service said. Casualty reports are being specified.

Eyewitnesses said that several shells reached the central part of the city in the nighttime gunfire at the city. A woman was killed and a man was taken to regional hospital with a fragmentation wound by a projectile hitting a residential house in Menzhinsky Street, the press service of Luhansk city council said.

A man died of a gunshot wound in the 27th quarter of the city and seven people were wounded by shells hitting residential houses in different districts of Luhansk.

Several mines exploded at Luhansk regional cancer treatment clinic. Windows were broken down at hospital buildings which were massively damaged.

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