Dead woman found under house debris in Balaklia where ammo depots are ablaze

10:50, 24.03.2017 1 min read

Head of Ukraine's State Service for Emergency Situations Mykola Chechiotkin has said a woman was killed in explosions at ammunition warehouses of the Defense Ministry near the town of Balaklia, Kharkiv region.

"Late in the evening during searches at a residential sector a dead woman, born 1951, was found under the rubble of a house," Chechiotkin said at the plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada on Friday morning.

He also said quoting the data of the Health Ministry that another woman, born 1962, was injured in the explosions.

As reported, explosions at the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's ammo depots near Balaklia began in the early hours of March 23.

Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said the explosions were continuing on about half of the depots' area, and the emergency may last from three to seven days.