Rescuers search under rubble at Kyiv's Okhmatdyt children’s hospital following Russian strike

(8 Jul 2024)
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Kyiv - 8 July 2024
1. Various of rescue workers at the ruined hospital
2. Excavator at site
3. Various of volunteers and rescuers clearing debris
4. Wide of rescue work


STORYLINE:
A major Russian missile attack across Ukraine killed at least 28 people and injured almost 100 on Monday, officials said, with one missile striking a large children’s hospital in the capital, Kyiv, where emergency crews searched the rubble for casualties.

At the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv, rescuers were searching for people under the rubble of a partially collapsed, two-story wing of the facility.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least 16 people, seven of them children, were injured.

On the hospital’s main 10-story building, windows and doors were blown out and walls were blackened.

Blood spattered the floor in one room.

The intensive care unit, operating theaters and oncology departments were all damaged, officials said.

Medical personnel and local people searched for children and medical workers.

Volunteers formed a line, passing bricks and other debris to each other.

Smoke still rose from the building, and volunteers and emergency crews worked in protective masks.

The attack forced the hospital to shut down and evacuate.

Some mothers carried their children away on their backs.

Others waited in the courtyard with their children as calls to doctors’ phones rang unanswered.

A few hours after the initial strike, another air raid siren sent many mothers with their children hurrying to the hospital’s shelter.

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