Workers of metallurgical plant in Mariupol killed by mine – advisor to Mayor

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA – THURSDAY, 8 SEPTEMBER 2022, 16:42

Workers tasked with cleaning a workshop in the Mariupol Illich Steel and Iron Works metallurgy plant have been killed by a mine. The plant has not been demined.

Source: Petro Andriushchenko, advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, on Telegram

Quote: "A tragedy has occurred at the Illich Steel and Iron Works in Mariupol. The occupying administration sent people to clean up the workshops without demining them first. As a result the employees triggered a mine. The explosion was so powerful that the whole city heard it." 

Details: Andriushchenko states that four residents of Mariupol were hospitalised and are in a very serious condition. The advisor to the mayor once again called upon Mariupol residents to evacuate.

Background:

• In July, plant employees in temporarily occupied Mariupol refused to "walk on mines" and started a "quiet sabotage".
• In the summer, Russian bomb disposal experts got blown up near Illich Steel and Iron Works in Mariupol.

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