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Train station attack death toll in Ukraine rises to 25, with children among the dead

25 August 2022 12:01 (UTC +04:00)

The death toll from a Russian attack Wednesday on a train station in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region has risen to 25, according to Ukrainian officials, APA reports quoting CNN.

Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the President's office said search and rescue operations had been completed at the station in the village of Chaplyne.

"Twenty-five people died, including two children, 31 people were injured due to the shelling of the residential sector and the railway station," Tymoshenko said Thursday. "An 11-year-old boy died under the rubble of a house; a 6-year-old child died in a car fire near the railway station."