Man rescued from under rubble after Russian attack on Kharkiv dies in hospital

A 77-year-old man who had been injured as a result of the Russian guided bomb attack on the city of Kharkiv on 10 June has died in hospital. It took rescue workers two hours to pull him from under the rubble of a destroyed building.

Source: Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov; Oleh Syniehubov, Head of Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration 

Quote: "A casualty of yesterday's attack, the person whom our rescue workers spent two hours pulling out from under the rubble, died in hospital this morning."

Details: Syniehubov said the man had sustained numerous closed fractures.

Background: Russian forces struck a residential area on the outskirts of Kharkiv on Monday, 10 June, injuring eight people.

This news has been updated since publication.

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