Slab shifts during rubble clearance at Kremenchuh shopping centre, hospitalising two rescuers
VALENTYNA ROMANENKO — WEDNESDAY, 29 JUNE 2022, 10:42
Two rescuers have been injured during the analysis of the damaged building structures of a shopping centre destroyed by a Russian missile in Kremenchuh, Poltava region.
Source: State Emergency Service
Quote: "On 29 June at 04:12, during preparations to remove reinforced concrete slabs, one of them shifted, as a result of which two employees of the State Emergency Service were injured. They are currently in hospital."
Details: It is reported that rescuers have examined and dismantled the wreckage of the building structures on 75% of the total area of the object.
They said that as a result of the shelling of the shopping centre, 18 people were killed (1 of whom died in hospital), and 8 fragments of human bodies were found during the analysis of the rubble.
61 people sought medical help, 26 of whom were admitted to an intensive care hospital.
A total of 392 people and 65 vehicles were involved in the work.
