Fears were growing last night for more than 1,000 people thought still buried in the rubble of the Ukrainian theatre targeted by Russian bombs.
The rescue effort has been severely hampered as most of the port city of Mariupol’s emergency services have been destroyed and many of its doctors killed.
Just a few more survivors emerged from the ruins yesterday – one with serious injuries – following Wednesday’s attack. As many as 1300 people, mostly women and children, are thought to have been in the basement sheltering from raids, and only around 130 have been able to get out so far.
Local politician Serhiy Taruta warned that hundreds of potential survivors will die instead, simply because there is nobody in the besieged city to pull them out.
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