Russian Attack on Ukraine’s Odesa Kills Married Couple, Officials Say

April 24 (Reuters) – A Russian ⁠drone ⁠attack overnight ⁠on Ukraine’s southern city of ​Odesa killed an elderly married couple ‌and wounded more than ‌a dozen others, ⁠Ukrainian ⁠officials said on Friday.

The strike wrecked two two-storey ​buildings and hit another two-storey one where two people died, emergency ​services said. It also wrecked apartments in ⁠a ⁠three-storey building, triggering ⁠fire, ​they said.

“A married couple, both aged 75, ​were killed ⁠in a night-time attack,” Serhiy Lysak, the head of the local military administration, said on ⁠Telegram.

Lysak said that 15 people were injured in ⁠the attack, while emergency services put the number of injured at 14.

He added that eight of those injured in the attack were treated in hospital.

Lysak posted photos of a building engulfed ⁠by fire, and another one with a gaping hole on its side, and emergency crews working ​inside.

(Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka; Editing ​by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

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