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Survivors began to emerge Thursday as authorities worked to rescue hundreds of civilians trapped in the basement of a theatre bombed by Russian airstrikes in the besieged city of Mariupol.
A ferocious Russian bombardment killed dozens in a northern city over the previous day, according to the local governor.
According to images issued by the municipal council, the previous evening’s strikes had left a huge piece of the majestic, three-story theatre edifice in the center of Mariupol fallen in burning rubble.
Hundreds of men, women, and children — may be up to 1,000, according to some sources — had sought refuge in the basement, seeking refuge from Russia’s siege of the important southern port city.
Despite further attacks reported elsewhere in the city on Thursday, rescuers tried to clear the rubble that had blocked the entrance to the basement.
“The building resisted the force of a high-powered air bomb and saved the lives of individuals hiding in the bomb shelter,” Ukraine’s ombudswoman, Ludmyla Denisova, said Thursday on the Telegram messaging app.
On Wednesday, the Russian defense ministry denied hitting the theatre or anywhere else in Mariupol.
According to Pavlo Kyrylenko, director of the Donetsk regional administration, a municipal pool where pregnant ladies and mothers with children were seeking refuge was also hit on Wednesday in Mariupol.
There was no information on casualties from the strike hours later.
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