One dead, nine injured in gunfire in Luhansk in past 24 hours - City Council

11:50, 16.07.2014 1 min read

One person died and nine were injured in gunfire in Luhansk in the past 24 hours, the Luhansk City Council press service said on Wednesday morning.

"Paramedics responded to 160 calls yesterday, including nine from civilians injured in the hostilities. One person was dead," the report said.

Apartment buildings on several streets and the Leleka store on Oboronna Street were put under artillery fire. A number of residences and structures were damaged.

Gunfire remains the main reason for damage and emergency shutdowns of city public utility services, the City Council said. There is no power supply to 2,395 customers in the Artemivsk and Kamiany Brid districts. Some 250 customers are cut off from tap water in the Zhovtnevy district and gas supply has been halted to 1,200 customers in Katerynivka.

A demolition squad of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service is operating on the daily basis to defuse munitions. The squad examined eleven sites over the past day. Eleven shells were neutralized.