09:43 28.07.2014

Thirteen killed in rocket attack on Horlivka center - Donetsk admin

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Thirteen killed in rocket attack on Horlivka center - Donetsk admin

Thirteen people, among them two children aged one and five years, were killed on Sunday in a shelling attack on the center of Horlivka, the Donetsk regional administration said on its Web site on Sunday.

Rockets were fired with Grad launchers. Civilian casualties vary from 20 to 30, according to the local emergencies department.

"The local maternity hospital was presumably damaged in an artillery attack. Windows were blown out when a drug rehabilitation clinic was hit by artillery fire. A rocket was fired at Hospital No.2, presumably the obstetric department, at about 1300. I can't provide more accurate information about casualties and destruction as I am only approaching the territory," the top local health official, Oleksandr Prosianyk, told Interfax-Ukraine.

The ATB supermarket was ruined and the Melodia ship was damaged.

A fire was sparked off by a shell in the town of Maisky. Residential buildings were damaged and windows were blown out on Besposhchadny, Ostapenko Streets and in the village of Korolenko. A house went ablaze in the village of Korolenko, local residents said.

The attack blew out windows in the TSUM department store. The building of the Ukrtelecom mobile phone operator was damaged. Reports arrived claiming that the building of the Donbasenergo electricity company had caught fire.

"Donbasenergo is ablaze, roofs were holed in several buildings, ambulances are busy doing running calls, the windows in the TSUM department store and Ukrtelecom were blown out," the Horlivka Self Defense Group reported.

The Artemvuhillia company's press service has denied reports posted in social media that the company headquarters were destroyed. The building was not damaged, it said.

The Horlivka railway terminal went ablaze. A firefighting effort is underway.

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