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A 2-year-old girl was killed and 22 people were injured — including five children — when a Russian missile struck a residential area of Ukraine’s central city of Dnipro overnight into Sunday, local officials said.
Serhiy Lysak, the governor of the Dnipro region, said the sudden attack destroyed and damaged several buildings and left 17 people in the hospital.
“Overnight, the body of a girl who had just turned two was pulled from under the rubble of a house,” Lysak said on the Telegram app Sunday.
The young girl, named Lisa, had recently turned two. Her body was found underneath the remnants of a house demolished in the strike.”
Iskander short-range cruise missiles were used during the strike, Lysak said.
The missile fell between two two-story apartment buildings in the Pidhorodnenska community, wrecking a number of homes and cars in the area.
Videos shared online showed rescue teams working to dig through the remnants.
