4 people rescued from under the rubble and from fires in the Kharkiv region

Saturday, 19 March 2022, 08:32

Four people have been rescued during rubble removal from collapsed buildings and from fires in the Kharkiv region, which continues being bombed by the Russian troops.

Source: State Emergency Service (SES) on Facebook

According to the SES: "Overall, Ukrainian emergency service workers attended 33 sites to extinguish fires and to clear the rubble of destroyed buildings over the course of the day. Four people were rescued from fires and during the clearing of the rubble."

Details: Over the past 24 hours, emergency service workers carried out search-and-rescue operations and cleared away the rubble in the Kyivsky, Shevchenkivsky, and Nemyshlyansky neighbourhoods of Kharkiv, as well as in the Kharkiv district of the region.

SES units also put out fires in high-rise apartment buildings, commercial facilities, and other civilian infrastructure buildings.

Bomb disposal technicians attended about 30 sites where detonated and unexploded ordnance was found.