Seven dead, 38 injured: Emergency rescue operations completed at explosion site in Kharkiv on January 2

Seven dead, 38 injured: Emergency rescue operations completed at explosion site in Kharkiv on January 2

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Emergency rescue operations have been completed in the center of Kharkiv at the site of the explosions on January 2, where seven people, including a child, were killed.

This was reported by Ihor Terekhov, the Mayor of Kharkiv, on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.

“Emergency rescue operations have been completed in the center of Kharkiv at the site of the explosions on January 2. A total of seven people were killed, including a three-year-old child. Thirty-eight people were injured, including two children,” Terekhov wrote.

He noted that 12 people were rescued.

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As reported by Ukrinform, on January 2, at around 2:30 p.m., Russian troops struck a residential building in Kharkiv with two Iskander missiles. Earlier, the bodies of a woman and a child were found under the rubble.

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