ICRC foreign employee killed in Donetsk shelling

09:18, 03.10.2014 1 min read

The International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine has reported the death of its employee in Donetsk.

"One of our office staff members has been killed as a result of a shelling in Donetsk today. We are working to notify his family about the tragic incident," an ICRC spokesperson told Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday evening.

The spokesperson would not name the victim, saying only that he was not Ukrainian.

"One of our colleagues in Donetsk Ukraine was killed when a shell hit close to our office. We're deeply distressed by this loss," ICRC wrote on Twitter.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin confirmed that an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross was killed in the shelling in Donetsk on Thursday. He said that this was a citizen of Switzerland.